Acceppt freeing the slaves didn’t occur on Juneteenth!
That’s a local Texas thing.
Freeing the slaves occurred with the passage of the 13th Amendment ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states (27 of the 36 states, including those that had been in rebellion), Secretary of State Seward, on December 18, 1865
So December 18th is the true date.
Of course, we can’t do anything that highlights the Constitution!
I think Texas was the last CSA state to officialy accept Union governance so today would be that last day for chattel slavery in the states of the CSA. Slavery continued in Ky., Md., Mo., and Del. until passage of 13th amendment. But slaves did little to free themselves. The men and boys who war The Blue and the families who longingly looked at the Vacant Chairs should be who are recognized today
those slaves freed in Galveston Tx were the last slaves freed under the authority of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.