[a fool in paradise]

>>”Juneteenth is the celebration that observes June 19th, 1865, as the enforced end of slavery in the United States.

Nope. Certain more northern states kept their slaves as did American Indians.

It marks the date in TEXAS in 1965 when a public notice was made 2 months after the end of the Civil War.

[Tunehead54]

Give or take a hundred years. ;-)

[Dr. Franklin]

Nope. Certain more northern states kept their slaves as did American Indians. It marks the date in TEXAS in 1965 when a public notice was made 2 months after the end of the Civil War.

Yes, slavery remained perfectly legal in Delaware and Kentucky until the Thirteenth Amendment was certified by Secretary of State Seward on December 18, 1865, and there tens of thousands of slaves in those two states combined. So celebrating the "end" of slavery five months earlier doesn't make a lot of sense. (I posted this earlier in two threads which must have gotten pulled...) Facts don't matter in the U.S. today. The propaganda narrative governs everything.