Comments by "gary K" (@garyK.45ACP) on "Liberal Hivemind"
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Juneteenth, once a "holiday" only in Texas, has nothing to do with the "Emancipation Proclamation" but when the news of the end of the Civil War in April, 1865 and the passage of the 13th Amendment in January, 1865 reached Texas.
The "Emancipation Proclamation" (1863) did not "free" ANY slaves. It applied ONLY to "States in open rebellion" to the US Government. Those states had declared themselves a separate country. Executive Orders of the President of the United States didn't apply to them. The states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware were slave states that did not secede from the union. Slaves in those states were not "freed" by the Emancipation Proclamation, either. Because they were not in "open rebellion".
The US had just lost thousands of soldiers at Vicksburg and Gettysburg, there had been the worst riots in US history (even to this day) in New York over the policy of allowing wealthy people to pay a fee to exempt their sons from military service, and Lincoln desperately needed SOMETHING to say they were "fighting for". It was a political stunt with no legal effect.
Juneteenth is a fabricated holiday intended to get votes.
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