In 2021, Juneteenth became the first new federal holiday created by Congress in nearly four decades. The 13th Amendment, enshrining a ban on slavery into the Constitution, was ratified in December 1865. In 1863, news spread slowly and often met resistance from plantation owners. Although the Emancipation Proclamation-an executive order declaring that “all persons held as slaves” would be free-was signed by President and marks the day, June 19, 1865, when news of emancipation reached people in the deepest parts of the former Confederacy in Galveston, Texas.
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