Rep. Blunt Rochester Statement on Juneteenth
June 20, 2020
June 20, 2020
WILMINGTON, Delaware, June 20 -- Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Delaware, issued the following statement on June 19 in recognition of Juneteenth:
"155 years ago, today, federal orders were read out in Galveston, Texas to set the last of our enslaved ancestors free.
"The Emancipation Proclamation had been signed by President Lincoln nearly two and a half years earlier, but the true emancipation of enslaved people in this country took much longer.
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"155 years ago, today, federal orders were read out in Galveston, Texas to set the last of our enslaved ancestors free.
"The Emancipation Proclamation had been signed by President Lincoln nearly two and a half years earlier, but the true emancipation of enslaved people in this country took much longer.
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