Everyone should know that JUNETEENTH was NOT the end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, a Union General ordered the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas. The Emancipation Proclamation ONLY applied to States that had seceded.
Slavery persisted in slave-States that had not seceded from the Union until the 13th Amendment was ratified, which was not until December 6, 1865.
Yet here we have the NH Democrats tweeting that Juneteenth was “the end of slavery.”
If you wanted to commemorate the actual end of slavery, then the Holiday would be on December 6th.
To be clear, I don’t have a problem with a holiday commemorating the end of slavery. Indeed, I think such a holiday is quite appropriate. I don’t have a problem with such a holiday being celebrated on June 19th, as long as it is clear what did and did not happen on that date.
What I do have a problem with is how casually the Left rewrites history. It is, in a word, Orwellian.
