Juneteenth: How news of the Emancipation Proclamation spread through the South

Juneteenth reminds us of Black Americans’ long struggle for education following end of slavery • SC Daily Gazette

Freed slave children pose with their teachers in Beaufort County, South Carolina, circa 1862. Union soldiers' defeat of Confederates in the naval Battle of Port Royal Sound in November 1861 liberated slaves on South Carolina's Sea Islands months before the Emancipation Proclamation declared an end to slavery. The white teachers on the steps came to the Port Royal area as missionaries. (Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress) The abolitionist …

The Hidden History Of Juneteenth

Gregory P. Downs, Black Agenda Report. Most people think Juneteenth was simply when enslaved Texans learned they were free. But that is a myth. They knew the war ended but the fight for freedom did not end with one proclamation; it took months of occupation and struggle against planters who refused to give up their human property. “We knowed what was goin’ on in [the war] all the time,” said Felix Haywood, dismissing the notion that his fellow T…

The History Of Juneteenth Explained

Source: Radio One Digital President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which ended the legal practice of slavery, went into effect on January 1, 1863, a reluctant move on his part that satisfied the wants of abolitionists. On June 19, 1865, enslaved Blacks in Texas were finally alerted that they were freed and thus, Emancipation Day, better known as Juneteenth, was born. Lincoln’s path to signing the proclamation was wrought with barri…

Happy Juneteenth, A Very Important Day In Our History

Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation, an order freeing enslaved people in seceded Confederate states.

Juneteenth: How news of the Emancipation Proclamation spread through the South

While some enslaved people did not know about Lincoln's order, many learned of it while the fighting was still ongoing through informal networks, rumors and sometimes from slaveholders themselves.