Universal Ramblings

Juneteenth, which is also known as the Emancipation Day or the Freedom Day, is a holiday in the U.S honoring the African American heritage by celebrating the announcement of the abolition of slavery in the United State’s State of Texas in the year 1865. Celebrated on 19th June every year and that day is recognized as a state holiday in 37 states of the U.S.The state of Texas is largely considered as the first state in the United States to start Juneteenth celebrations with the informal customary rite taking place for over 100 years, Juneteenth has been an official state holiday since the year 1980. It is considered as a “partial staffing holiday”, meaning that the state offices don’t close but some of the employees will be using a floating holiday to celebrate the Juneteenth, Its observance has spreaded to many states, with few celebrations even taking place in other Nations as well.

Though Mr. Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on 22nd September, 1862, which came into effect on 1st January 1863, it had a small immediate effect on most of the slave’s daily lives, esspecially in the Confederate States of America.

Texas is a part of the Confederacy, was resistant to the Emancipation Proclamation and though that the slavery was very prevalent in the East Texas, it wasn’t as common in the Western areas of the state of Texas, particularly in the Hill Country, where most German Americans were opposed to the slavery practice. Juneteenth commemorates June 18 & 19, 1865. 18th June is the day Union General Mr. Gordon Granger and other 2,000 federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to take the possession of the state and to free the slaves.