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Originally Posted by Cloud
In Texas, we celebrate something called "Juneteenth"--supposedly honoring the day the news of emancipation finally reached Way Out West.
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June 19th, two months after the end of the war, was the last official public posting and reading of the proclamation. That's when they feel the proclamation was in effect nation wide. Of course that's a little nebulous, but I think that's the reasoning.