Reposted by Edison James
On June 19, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, enslaved people in Texas finally learned they were free when Union troops arrived in Galveston to enforce emancipation.
Edison James
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Father, and Woke Veteran of 22 years, whose frustrated and disgusted by the trampling of the Constitution that I served to uphold against all enemies foreign and DOMESTIC!
