Emancipation Proclamation
WASHINGTON (AP) — A holiday that is spreading across the U.S. and beyond, Juneteenth is considered the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. It was originally celebrated on June 19, the day that Union soldiers in 1865 told enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, that the Civil War had […]
Three years prior to the ending of slavery via President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, Union Army Gen. David Hunter filed his own proclamation to free slaves in the South. On this day in 1862, Gen. Hunter issued General Order No. 11, which ended slavery across three states but was quickly struck down weeks later. Gen. Hunter had […]
As many around the nation and the world prepare to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Juneteenth, also known Emancipation Day, a variety of celebrations will take place. Figuring in the center of those celebrations and events honoring the holiday will be music related to Juneteenth, hearkening back to when African-American spiritual songs galvanized enslaved Blacks […]
Good Morning and Happy New Year Family. This New Year has ushered in the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. How amazing as we are on the eve of the 2nd Inauguration of the 1st black President of the United States. But as much as I am in favor of the acknowledgement and celebration of […]
January 1, 1863, marks the day that Emancipation Proclamation under President Abraham Lincoln would be signed. The order would call for the freedom of over 3.1 million slaves under the Confederacy. It was said that Abraham Lincoln found the practice of slavery barbaric but he knew that that would not appeal to neither the Union […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — As New Year’s Day approached 150 years ago, all eyes were on President Abraham Lincoln in expectation of what he warned 100 days earlier would be coming — his final proclamation declaring all slaves in states rebelling against the Union to be “forever free.” A tradition began Dec. 31, 1862, as many […]
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