Hidden Freedom, Hidden Power: A Juneteenth
VirtualJuneteenth commemorates the date (June 19, 1865) when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, and announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved people in the state were free—two and half years after the Emancipation Proclamation had been issued by President Lincoln. Enslavers hid freedom from enslaved Texans, to continue depriving them of […]