Juneteenth 六月節,黑人自由日,德州是美國南北戰爭最後一個黑人被解放的州

Arrival in Texas: Texas was the westernmost Confederate state and remained largely untouched by the Union Army until the very end of the Civil War. On June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, with federal troops and issued General Order No. 3, announcing that all enslaved people in Texas were free. This news came more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

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