Perspective: Five myths about Juneteenth
said slave owners had kept the news of the proclamation hidden, implying enslaved people in Texas didn’t know of the order freeing them.In fact, though, Lincoln’s administration used the era’s innovative technology — the telegraph — to send and receive information about the war. News of the final proclamation was disseminated from the War Department’s telegraph office on Jan 1, 1863. Norman-Cox says the proclamation was common knowledge by the time Granger arrived in Galveston. On Jan.
14, 1863, areported “the resolution endorsing Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation was adopted in the Federal House of Representatives 78 - 51.” More than 100 Texas newspapers mentioned the Emancipation Proclamation between 1862 and 1864. The real reason people were still in bondage when Union troops arrived is because of local leaders: The Texas Confederate constitution prohibited manumission. Lincoln’s directive was only enforced when federal soldiers got to Texas much later.
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