Juneteenth remembered, how Emancipation news reached Galveston

Bouvier Mom21

Correction: The Emancipation Proclamation was signed 2 years and 6 months prior to the arrival of Union Troops to Galveston, TX. If they had not arrived it would have been even longer that the slaves in Texas remained slaves, know that.

Diogenes’ Heir Apparent9

went to the Juneteenth celebration in Jefferson City Missouri while I was in prison, in work release, which is the legalized 13th amendment version of slavery. coming to understand this, learning about @prisonradio.org & The incredible work they do with incarcerated people has been enlightening.

secondhalf74.bsky.social4

upset that this wasn't taught. More upset that our stupid news programs didn't make this known over the past 20 years. That's their role. But tbh, no one supported gay rights until it was a bloody battle. Power is not given, it is seized. Sad. Now we fight for a better society. Blood now.

bill73-53.bsky.social4

Never knew about Juneteenth until President Biden made it a Federal holiday

TOSsnitch4

This wasn't just a confession, it was a "Death Bed Confession" which actually holds double credibility in a court of law. eji.org/news/nixon-w... Any person voting GOP is an idiot, a shill, mentally ill, uneducated, too busy working to survive. This is how Dems should be speaking.

Astrid Finch3

Freedom arriving two months after Lincoln’s assassination proves that decrees aren’t enough. Systemic oppression always hides where federal enforcement fails. That's why we fight today—to ensure justice is never delayed again ✊

timesawasting.bsky.social3

May this never happen again.

AmpCyclist3

Or, as MAGA Republicans like to say…”fake history.”

Bill3

To put it in perspective. Telegraphs existed. People in Texas knew. Freedom was not achieved until US Troops came to Texas to free people. The Federal Government’s intervention was required to achieve freedom. Hey Supreme Court. That Federal intervention is still required in our elections!

phil-stone.bsky.social2

Giving my Rainbow flag the day off to fly the Stars & Stripes! Happy Juneteenth! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Toni Growell2

To our fellow Americans who have their lineage from slavery, and our government granted you your freedom, today we celebrate with you this Juneteenth Day. You have made it possible for people who came after, made this our dream a reality. You are the conscience of our humanity. Thank you!🚨👏🙏

Suzette2

It was 2 years after, right? Not 2 months.

daisyjingles.bsky.social2

It’s disheartening that so many Americans don’t know the reason for celebrating Juneteenth, which allows the right wing to frame it as an unnecessary “woke” holiday instead of the important historical event that it is. We really need better civics and history education in this country!

@charlespattonbooks.com2

On this Juneteenth, let’s remember all the black soldiers who fought and died in Vietnam. They contributed disproportionately to our sacrifices there.

susyq90.bsky.social2

What a beautiful end to our country's most horrible nightmare

ScotM2

What MAGA doesn’t get is that American history isn’t about being perfect. It’s about struggling and slowly making progress. Juneteenth celebrates a huge (long overdue) positive step that made America a better, if still imperfect, nation.

Earth care. People care. Fair share. Saving the planet together2

I wish our history books had included black history when I was young. We must be diligent about including it in future texts.

Salty Mule30

Not much has changed in Texas in 161 years. Conservative Texas politicians still trying to suppress citizens’ freedoms.

www.koolschrankpress.com19

The original Juneteenth Order (see 3)

QueenAntifa13

Texas has always been behind the rest of us. Especially in ignorance.

SDK_Resists11

What Trump and his MAGA Republican regime haven't whitewashed that part of history yet? They've already elevated Custer to hero status and are now calling the Trail of Tears made up propaganda! Tell that to the THOUSANDS of Native Indigenous Peoples that died in THAT attempted genocide! Hiy Hiy 🪶🪶🪶

English Teacher10

I’ve read that they of course knew that they were free but why could they do when people with guns and brutality kept them hostage essentially. It’s just that it took 2 years for them to be rescued

BenFrankArt7

They had to enforce it. The Texans were not willingly letting them go. And that was just one example of thousands. We just recognized the day so that this fact wouldn’t get erased from history so easily. As you can see, that was a wise move.

Patrick Prunty4

Texans have always been horrible racists.

Alicia4

I live in Galveston they still don’t know it . Last summer they tied a black mans hands and walked him behind them while they were on horse back to jail for loitering. He won the suit

Polin4

It's true that old slavery ended on paper long ago, but even today, the way workers are exploited by having their passports seized in countries like Saudi Arabia is actually modern-day slavery.

SFB4

So Texas had a two year start on their crimes against minorities. Ask me if I'm surprised. 😬

brownchubbybear4

It’s a shame so many racists on social media are upset people want to celebrate the day former slaves were set free. I suggest anyone that used the laugh emoji on a Juneteenth post today to actually Google and see why it is being celebrated.

AnnietheBlue4

Texas always trying to keep the people down.

Silvie4

Am I correct to assume that, NO reparations were ever made to the enslaved people—financially or otherwise⁉️ From 1776-2026 nothing has changed-We the people move one step forward, and in one day, we move 300 steps backward…💙🙏

birdie1958.bsky.social4

And then it took 100 years for the Civil Rights Act of 1965 to be enacted, allowing poc to vote without poll taxes, or literacy tests. This nation is backsliding into Jim Crow. REGISTER. VOTE. VOTE 💙.

Jim Mason2

I think Texas’ moral deficiency problem could be linked to the tradition of ranching and cattle wrestling and cowboy gun fighting and all that frontier shit. You know, manly Alpha male, toxic masculinity stuff.

HA Grace2

Texas still remains years behind true American Democracy 160 years later

johnwthompson.bsky.social2

Who's surprised as this is what started Texas in the first place ...

notrite132.bsky.social2

That is so frigging SAD, the people didn't want to tell slaves they were free for 2 frigging YEARS.

Gonzo2

Today's TX GOP is still fighting that civil war trying to undo its outcomes.

Nicky2

My home church in Mississippi used to have an “8 o’ May” luncheon. (I asked who Ada May was) I finally figured out it was because everyone at the church had to get together to cook for themselves after slaves were freed. Thankfully they changed the name to Spring Luncheon and the proceeds go to 1/

KUNA7

but also, it's wild that it took that long for the news to reach them, 2.5 years after the proclamation. what does that say about the system that was supposed to free them?

Eliana5

We should have listened to you! youtu.be/FciQeRGYFlw?...

Numbcat95

Slavery continues in the United States limited only to being the punishment for a crime. Explicitly authorized by the Constitution. More people are subjected to this condition here than anywhere else in the world. We sell their labor to private companies. They’re disproportionately Black men.

truthnotlies52.bsky.social3

Leave it to Texass to be the last.

steve sumner: do right by those we have wronged.3

whites kept them for another 2 1/2 years they shouldn't have. whites are guilty all the way through their lineage.

Rima I Anabtawi2

There’s good reason that strong box is called a “national”!

spence16.bsky.social2

Our shame for the abomination of slavery needs to be reckoned with- as well as the persistent consequences.

schuetmi.bsky.social2

Thank you for this reminder, seems there‘s still so much to be done to keep freedom and equality alive these days. It was wonderful to meet you in Mannheim, and finding out that „rumors“ are indeed true sometimes. 😃 Have a great time in Germany, all the best from Michael!

Hobbit Korkie2

Figures Texas would be the last to emancipation there slaves.

Alfred Eeee!7

So I guess Texans have always been like that.

Chris⚖️Justice6

"Justice delayed is justice denied." That's for sure!

Dad Bod E5

Texas refused to accept the will of the country so we had to send troops to force them to comply. Yep, sounds about white!

letherbeshaved.bsky.social2

Slavery continued in Delaware and New Jersey until the 13th Amendment was passed. Both States voted against it.

Hold For Outro2

This is not true and helps limit people's understanding of the flow of history. The last person freed from chattel slavery in the US was Alfred Irving in 1942. The last family freed (by escaping) from peonage slavery was the Williams family in 1961.

Laurie2

Now we have concentration camps & the people in them are slaves… we are broken again

Pat Duggins4

For Juneteenth—Super proud of two Alabama Public Radio newsroom interns, who helped APR win two Public Media Journalists Association nat’l First Place Awards for our civil rights series “…a death, a bridge, and a seat on the bus.” www.apr.org/news/2025-12...

Andy Heppelle🇺🇸🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇬🇱🇺🇳🏳️‍⚧️4

I celebrate June 19, 1865, Freedom Day🇺🇸, Juneteenth🇺🇸 I celebrate progress toward “a more perfect Union”: Declaration of Independence 1776🇺🇸, Emancipation Jan,1863🇺🇸(only in confederate states) June 1865, Texas, 13th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Dec 1865🇺🇸, Obama Presidential Center, June 2026 🇺🇸

Silence Nogood2

Feathers only lift when we work together. ❤️❤️❤️

P Maroney2

Thanks. You too !!!! bsky.app/profile/patr...

historyinthefaking.bsky.social2

Question for all you big farmers out there. Why not use drip irrigation? I drive through Bakersfield and I see sprinklers creating clouds of evaporated water all over the almond and mandarin groves. Is there not a more efficient way to water our crops?

Mike Henry21

I appreciate the “Vice President of the so-called Confederate States” italicized shade throwing. Nicely done there.

shazmo64.bsky.social9

Genuine question. Would these men have been able to read the pamphlets? Or would there have been enough who could, to read them to others.

MOONFLOWER3

RACIST CONFEDERATE, TEXAS WOULD NOT INFORM THE ENSLAVED THAT THEY WERE FREE. WASHINGTON HAD TO SEND ARMED SOLDIERS TO FORCE TEXAS, TO LET THEM GO IN 1865, MORE THAN 2 AND A 1/2 YEARS AFTER THE PROCLAMATION WAS SIGNED. THAT.IS WHY WE CELEBRATE JUNETEENTH⚡️ IT WAS JUNE NINETEENTH EIGHTEEN SIXTY FIVE

Susie3

@djinnandtonic.bsky.social For your art-making interests

ILuvPolitix2

Thank you for sharing! I did not know about this.

Jocelyn2

Do you have any ideas if these were owned by individuals or were extras? I've never heard of an item like this, super cool

Talena5

Remember how, 160 years after that war ended, a bunch of the same whacked states tried to end Black political representation right after the supreme KKK gutted the VRA?

Numbcat93

Slavery is still explicitly legal in the United States according to the 13th Amendment. That piece of crap amendment still explicitly authorizes slavery as punishment for a crime. We have more people subjected to this kind of slavery than anywhere else in the world. Disproportionately Black men.

Rosecrucian Roeth2

Yes, a very long history and it is still ongoing.

snikpoh.bsky.social9

Not “two months”! It was more than two years!

Professional Internet Beggar4

The phrase "Did you hear that we are free?" might be one of the most powerful sentences in American history.

She/Her2

Please update this post. My ancestors were held for two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

Thia Fin2

If only we could free them from prejudice...it shackles too.

Wile E. Coyote's ACME Sales Rep5

Hi Corrina! On Juneteenth, we celebrate freedom earned through unimaginable suffering, resilience, and courage. We honor those who suffered, and remember the fight that continues.

Marcie Lipsitt3

Juneteenth should be every day and still those deranged Americans who voted for 47 have put equal rights, human rights and civil rights in great peril.

DianneSpiritlight3

It is very important that we find a leader who will prioritize all of the things that matter to us most.Freedom of speech,civil rights. Diversity,equal opportunity,all of the things that we had and have lost! Together,we will find our way and today is a special day to remind us that it is possible.

Jenna Constantine PhD3

Wonderful post, Corrina! Happy #Juneteenth ✌️

Maureen Berzanski 🧷🇺🇦🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🟧🌊 🐾3

Happy Juneteenth to all including those who do not believe in freedom

bjbrit.bsky.social3

And we still don't have it for everyone

We’ll never have a thriving democracy if we can be sent back to the Stone Age every four years. This system can’t work. End Citizen United, the electoral college. Expand the court and add term limits. Tax the rich. Codify Choice, DEI, etc. End the Cold War with the south once and for all. This is BS

Super Joe Man6

Emancipation Day celebration, June 19, 1900 held in "East Woods" on East 24th Street in Austin. Credit: Austin History Center. #Junteenth

Lldemats4

And ever since, for black people, it's been one step up and two steps back. Today's Republicans really want Jim Crow resurrected.

Super Joe Man2

Two yrs ago, I proclaimed these people emancipated then, thenceforward and for ever free. The courts might decide I had no authority to do it. That's why I'd like to get the 13th Amendment through the house and on its way to ratification by the states. NOW. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE41...

emilylevine56.bsky.social6

Library of Congress, you might consider using “American elders” instead of “elderly Americans” as it conveys more respect and affords these people the dignity they deserve. Thank you

Andy Heppelle🇺🇸🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇬🇱🇺🇳🏳️‍⚧️3

I celebrate June 19, 1865, Freedom Day🇺🇸, Juneteenth🇺🇸 I celebrate progress toward “a more perfect Union”: Declaration of Independence 1776🇺🇸, Emancipation Jan,1863🇺🇸(only in confederate states) June 1865, Texas, 13th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Dec 1865🇺🇸, Obama Presidential Center, June 2026 🇺🇸

exskypirate.bsky.social6

I love that this put a smile on my face this early in the day. I will hold this throughout the day when things get dicey! Thank you!

AuntyTutu2

Great way to start my day! Thx!

꧁༺𝓜𝔃𝓜𝓲𝓪𝓜𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓪 ༻꧂2

I LOVE THIS 🙏🏼 #Happyjuneteenth

Sunshine2

Straight and to the point…’nuff said!!