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Juneteenth, the day we celebrate slavery officially ending in America.

Or if you're gone with the wind fan, a day of morning.

Now you might be thinking, the end of slavery.

So this is about the Emancipation Proclamation.

Nope.

The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 didn't end slavery.

Slavery didn't even end when the Civil War was over in 1865.

In reality, it took two months after the Civil War ended for the Union Army to get into all the slave states and free the slaves.

When it came to giving out freedom, white people ran on CPTAR.

But on June 19, 1865, a Union general named Gordon Granger occupied Texas.

The last slave state and declared all of it slaves free.

He's an American hero.

And it looks like the breeze that my coffee shop.

I'm gonna have to thank him next time I order a maquiato.

And frame the slaves in Texas was especially important.

Because although Texas was the last state to be emancipated, it had a ton of slaves.

It was blacker than a family reunion in Wakanda.

That's because during the war, a lot of slave owners shift their slaves to Texas for state keeping.

Knowing Union troops couldn't reach that far.

They were basically treating Texas like the couch pushers,

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