When Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, to enforce General Orders No. 3, his announcement did not simply deliver news of freedom. It exposed a brutal, institutional delay. More than 250,000 enslaved Black Americans in Texas had remained Illegally captive for two and a half years after President […]
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