On this day in 1865 Major General Gordon Granger arrived on Galveston Island and issued a general order freeing the last remaining slaves and effectively ending slavery in the United States, afterwards remembered as “Juneteenth”.
On this day in 1865 Major General Gordon Granger arrived on Galveston Island and issued a general order freeing the last remaining slaves and effectively ending slavery in the United States, afterwards remembered as “Juneteenth”.
