That was more than two months after Confederate Gen. Gordon Granger and his troops arrived at Galveston on June 19, 1865, with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. That’s why, you know, we celebrate that day.” “I think now they say they worked them, six months after that. “Old master didn’t tell, you know, they was free,” Smalley said at the time. Laura Smalley, freed from a plantation near Bellville, Texas, remembered in a 1941 interview that her former master had gone to fight in the Civil War and came home without telling his slaves what had happened. Although the Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved people in the South in 1863, it could not be enforced in many places until after the end of the Civil War in 1865. The celebration started with the freed enslaved people of Galveston, Texas. Get Tri-state area news and weather forecasts to your inbox.
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