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Even though the Emancipation Proclamation was announced in 1863, not everyone in the Confederate states was immediately free. The proclamation declared freedom, but it couldn’t be enforced in places along the Texas coastline, that were still controlled by the Confederates.
References
“The Historical Legacy of Juneteenth,” Smithsonian, accessed May 31, 2024
Teresa Palomo Acosta, “Juneteenth,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed May 31, 2024, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/juneteenth.
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