From the Plantation to the Thicket: Juneteenth, Black Freedom, and ‘Marronage’ in Texas

In Texas, Juneteenth is often described as the day that Union Major General Gordon Granger marched upon the shores of Galveston to announce the Emancipation Proclamation—on June 19th, 1865.  But freedom in Texas was achieved both after and before formal emancipation.  Following June 1865, those newly freed Afro-Texans who’d heard the news still had to […] The post From the Plantation to the Thicket: Juneteenth, Black Freedom, and ‘Marronage’ in Texas appeared first on...