“That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.īy the President of the United States of America: The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. Slavery was abolished in the entirety of the United States when the 13th Amendment was ratified in December 1865. Army troops recovered the territory that the proclamation was enforced. The Emancipation Proclamation, which outlawed slavery in the states that were engaged in armed rebellion against the Union, went into effect in 1863. Technically, they were freed two years earlier. Gordon Granger issued General Order Number Three, which informed the enslaved people of Galveston, Texas, that they were free. Juneteenth dates back to June 19, 1865, when Maj.
Editor’s Note: Yesterday, President Joe Biden signed legislation making Juneteenth (June 19) a federal holiday.
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