[jeffersondem]

“It is the oldest and longest running tradition to celebrate the end of slavery.”

But, of course, slavery in the United States did not end on June 19. Juneteenth is said to be a celebration about the end of slavery in the Confederate States of America.

And that in this context: The Confederate States of America were defeated by the most powerful slave-owning nation on earth.

[Verginius Rufus]

December 6, 1865, was the day that slavery was abolished everywhere in the United States. That should be celebrated rather than a date with just local significance.

By coincidence, Jefferson Davis died on December 6 (many years later--in 1889).