NAREB Region VII 2nd Annual Regional Conference Digital Souvenir

“Freedom’s Eve,” or the eve of January 1, 1863, the first
On
Night services took place. On that night, enslaved
Watch
free African Americans gathered in churches and
and
homes all across the country awaiting news that the
private
Proclamation had taken effect. At the stroke
Emancipation
midnight, prayers were answered as all enslaved people
of
Confederate States were declared legally free. Union
in
many of whom were black, marched onto
soldiers,
and across cities in the south reading small
plantations
of the Emancipation Proclamation spreading the
copies
of freedom in Confederate States. Only through the
news
Amendment did emancipation end slavery
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not everyone in Confederate territory would
But
be free. Even though the Emancipation
immediately
was made effective in 1863, it could not be
Proclamation
in places still under Confederate control. As a
implemented
in the westernmost Confederate state of Texas,
result,
people would not be free until much later.
enslaved
finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000
Freedom
troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army
Union
that the more than 250,000 enslaved black
announced
in the state, were free by executive decree. This day
people
to be known as "Juneteenth," by the newly freed
came
in Texas.
people
throughout the United States.

post-emancipation period known as Reconstruction
The
marked an era of great hope, uncertainty, and
(1865-1877)
for the nation as a whole. Formerly enslaved people
struggle
sought to reunify families, establish schools, run
immediately
political office, push radical legislation and even sue
for
for compensation. Given the 200+ years of
slaveholders
such changes were nothing short of amazing.
enslavement,
even a generation out of slavery, African Americans
Not
inspired and empowered to transform their lives and
were
country.
their
marks our country’s second independence day.
Juneteenth
it has long celebrated in the African American
Although
this monumental event remains largely unknown
community,
most Americans.
to
historical legacy of Juneteenth shows the value of
The
giving up hope in uncertain times. The National
never
of African American History and Culture is a
Museum
space where this spirit of hope lives on. A place
community
historical events like Juneteenth are shared and new
where
with equal urgency are told.
stories

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