It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Learn ...
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.Learn ...
On the surface, a day to celebrate slavery’s end seems self-evident. It was a despicable institution that plagued every human civilization for thousands of years. Its existence in the U.S. opposed the ...