Troy celebrates Juneteenth with Freedom Crawl

Troy celebrates Juneteenth with Freedom Crawl

TROY, N.Y. — Troy celebrated Juneteenth this year with a Freedom Crawl, recognizing the importance of the holiday commemorating when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce that the Civil War had ended and that all enslaved people were free. While President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation officially freed enslaved people in Confederate states in 1863, the news did not reach enslaved people in Texas until more than two y…