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Today, Americans celebrate “Juneteenth” – when in 1865 slavery finally ended throughout the entire United States. Incorrect "Junteenth" - Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. Note that this was two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation - which had become official January 1, 1863. Slavery ended in the United States on December 6, 1865 with the ratification of the 13th Ammendment. Former slaves officially became citizens on July 9, 1868 with the ratification of the 14th Ammendment.

[since 1854]

Unionist slave-states had abolished slavery by June 1865, and the only place in the USA where slavery was still being practiced was Texas.