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Towlie

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3. Are you proud that Texas concealed the Emancipation Proclamation from its slaves for 2-1/2 years?

Reply to MagickMuffin (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 19, 2020, 09:44 AM

Jun 2020

From https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/19/entertainment/taylor-swift-juneteenth/index.html

June 19 commemorates the day in which slaves in Texas learned slavery had ended -- two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

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Three States Have Not Recognized Juneteenth. [View all] Towlie Jun 2020 OP

For all the Texas bashing and bashers . . . . Texas Led The Way MagickMuffin Jun 2020 #1

Juneteenth started in Texas. nocoincidences Jun 2020 #2

Are you proud that Texas concealed the Emancipation Proclamation from its slaves for 2-1/2 years? Towlie Jun 2020 #3

Texas at that time was in revolt Coleman Jun 2020 #5

Living in a red state myself, MontanaMama Jun 2020 #4

My RWNJ BIL owns his own business and usually knocks off at noon on Fridays Ex Lurker Jun 2020 #6

Wow, that'll show 'em central scrutinizer Jun 2020 #8

I'll never understand that kind of hate. Alacritous Crier Jun 2020 #9

Thanks. good info. riversedge Jun 2020 #7