[MattMusson]

Most do not remember or acknowledge that after all Confederate Slaves were freed, there were slaves held in Northern states until the 13th Amendment was implemented.

Union slave states like Missouri legally held them. But, most Union states turned a blind eye to slave holders. Recent historical analysis shows that Oregon may have had as many as 800 slaves held after Juneteenth.

[AZJeep]

General Grant had a slave, one of the lest slave in the US.

[FirstFlaBn]

Most do not remember or acknowledge that after all Confederate Slaves were freed, there were slaves held in Northern states until the 13th Amendment was implemented. Union slave states like Missouri legally held them. But, most Union states turned a blind eye to slave holders. Recent historical analysis shows that Oregon may have had as many as 800 slaves held after Juneteenth.

Finally, somebody who knows this little detail. Among those legions of history majors working as staffers in congress, at the DNC and RNC, at all the "news" networks, not one has a clue about the historical record (or any curiosity to research).

BTW, in an article in the Cincinnati Enquirer in Aug 1865, it was reported that KY still had 65,000 slaves in July.

Even libs can (maybe) grasp that July comes after Juneteenth.

[hanamizu]

Union slave states like Missouri legally held them.

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I believe that Missouri actually abolished slavery a few months before the 13th kicked in, but I could be wrong. People forget, or never learned, that the Emancipation Proclamation only affected slaves in states declared in rebellion on January 1, 1863. Slaves in Union states and Confederate states under Union control were not affected. The E.C. is quite specific about this.