国立アメリカ歴史博物館のインスタグラム(amhistorymuseum) - 6月19日 22時11分

Happy Juneteenth ?! From humble beginnings as a local holiday in Texas, Juneteenth has grown into one of the most popular holidays celebrating the end of slavery in the United States. The story of Juneteenth, like the story behind this inkstand, is a reminder that emancipation wasn't a single moment.
In the summer of 1862 President Abraham Lincoln sat at a desk in the War Department telegraph office and, using this inkstand, began drafting a presidential order to free the enslaved people held in the Confederacy. The order—now known as the Emancipation Proclamation—technically ended slavery in Confederate states, but it had little effect in regions that were not under the U.S. government's control.
For enslaved people who lived near Galveston, Texas, the promises made by the Emancipation Proclamation were only realized two years later, when Union forces arrived in Galveston. Upon arriving in the city on June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger issued General Orders No. 3, which proclaimed that all enslaved people in the state were free, and that there now existed "an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves." In the years that followed, growing numbers of black Texans set aside June 19 as a day to celebrate emancipation. Their celebrations laid the foundations for Juneteenth.
But even Juneteenth did not mark the end of the story of emancipation. Six months after Juneteenth, in December 1865, the ratification of the 13th Amendment marked the permanent death of slavery in the United States. Over four million Americans were no longer legally defined as someone’s property and, although their rights would be brutally contested, they became United States citizens.
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