In school, many children learn that President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed all enslaved people in the Southern slaveholding states. In practice, the South would not give up on slavery so easily, continuing the practice for more than two years after Lincoln’s Proclamation. The true end to slavery came on June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas when Gordon Granger, a Union general, read Gene...
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