06-19-2022, 02:25 PM
I honestly don't know why I am surprised at the lack of knowledge on this forum.
Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation (officially Proclamation 95) in September 1862; it officially took effect on January 1st, 1863. Contrary to popular belief, the proclamation did not free the slaves. The proclamation only freed those slaves in states that were in open rebellion against the Union.
The problem was, it meant nothing to the slave states, as they did not recognize the Union. They were part of a separate nation called the Confederate States of America.
Texas was a southern state, it seceded in 1861.
Here is what surprises me most, you folks don't know the War of Northern Aggression lasted until May of 1865.
It took another month for Union troops to take control of Texas and enforce the no slavery law now in effect across the entire US in Texas. Hence the birth of Juneteenth.
I have said this before, you seriously need to educate yourselves.
Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation (officially Proclamation 95) in September 1862; it officially took effect on January 1st, 1863. Contrary to popular belief, the proclamation did not free the slaves. The proclamation only freed those slaves in states that were in open rebellion against the Union.
The problem was, it meant nothing to the slave states, as they did not recognize the Union. They were part of a separate nation called the Confederate States of America.
Texas was a southern state, it seceded in 1861.
Here is what surprises me most, you folks don't know the War of Northern Aggression lasted until May of 1865.
It took another month for Union troops to take control of Texas and enforce the no slavery law now in effect across the entire US in Texas. Hence the birth of Juneteenth.
I have said this before, you seriously need to educate yourselves.