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Posted by Fred G on Sun Jun 20 04:44:27 2021, in response to Re: Juneteenth All But Official, posted by Easy on Sat Jun 19 22:58:04 2021. The emancipation proclamation stated that every slave in the confederacy would be free when they were on Union territory, whether it be by them escaping or by the union army occupying that territory. It redefined the Civil War from solely protecting the union to being a fight to end slavery. This was important because it kept Britain and France, who opposed slavery, from actively assisting the confederacy.I didn’t see anything about a stipulation that a Slave had to fight alongside the union troops in order to be free. I did see that the emancipation proclamation allowed black Americans to fight in the union army. Since Texas was the last place to cave to the union armies and the last place to ratify the 13th amendment, it’s fitting that Juneteenth celebrate the events there as the final straw in ending slavery. |
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