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Happy Juneteenth

The Emancipation Proclamation was signed on Sept 22, 1862 to free all slaves effective  Jan 1, 1863.  Texas, which didn’t play a central part of the confederacy nor was it a significant part of the battle front, was slower to the party. On June 18, 1865 (nearly two years later) General Granger rode into Galveston […]