University of California-Davis: Juneteenth Marks End of a Sustained Slavery That Lasted Beyond Emancipation Proclamation
June 20, 2020
June 20, 2020
DAVIS, California, June 20 -- The University of California Davis campus issued the following news:
More than two years after President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation (and had already been killed), almost five months since Congress passed the 13th Amendment, and more than two months after Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate Army at the Appomattox Court House, all slaves were ordered free in Texas on June 19, 1865.
This had to be done, . . .
More than two years after President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation (and had already been killed), almost five months since Congress passed the 13th Amendment, and more than two months after Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate Army at the Appomattox Court House, all slaves were ordered free in Texas on June 19, 1865.
This had to be done, . . .