MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · June 19
THE DAY IN HISTORY · JUNE 19
June 19 in history
1865 — Juneteenth
19 Jun 1865 — Union troops reach Galveston and proclaim that “all slaves are free” — two and a half years after the Proclamation. Freedom arrived where the army arrived; Juneteenth remembers exactly that.
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