Juneteenth is a holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. After the Civil War, slaves were declared free under the 1862 Emancipation Proclamation. On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers enforced the Emancipation Proclamation freeing all remaining slaves in Galveston, Texas. “The Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, had established that all enslaved people in Confederate states in […]