It commemorates the day that the REPUBLICAN President set free the slaves held by the Democrats.
It commemorates the day that the REPUBLICAN President set free the slaves.
And the democrats are still pissed about it.
It commemorates the day that the REPUBLICAN President set free the slaves held by the Democrats.
Juneteenth commemorates the day when Union General Gordon Granger announced to slaves in Texas that Lincoln had freed the slaves in 1863, an afactual statement.
On June 19, 1865, Lincoln was dead and Democrat Andrew Johnson was president.
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation January 1, 1863.
Lawful slavery persisted in the Union state of Delaware until December 6, 1865, when the 13th Amendment ended legal slavery in the United States.
Archivist unearths document listing last Sussex slave ownersMolly Murray
The News Journal
Published 10:52 a.m. ET May 12, 2016
Updated 3:39 p.m. ET May 12, 2016Georgetown farmer James Anderson still owned eight slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed and after the Civil War came to an end in April 1865.
It was only after the 13th Amendment became law on Dec. 6, 1865, that slaves in Delaware were freed.
A newly discovered document, found by a state archivist at the Delaware Public Archives, lists the last remaining slave owners in Sussex County – men and women who among themselves claimed ownership to 525 humans. At the time, they were treated as property and taxed as such.
The records show up in a Sussex County Assessment roll that Stephen P. Marz, director of public archives, believes likely dates back to 1866. The county government, then called Levy Court, wanted to determine how much revenue from taxes on slaves they would lose, Marz said. The tally in 1865 dollars was $17,131. Today, it would be closer to $255,000.