The Morning Star publishes the Communist Party of Britain's 58th congress address by general secretary ROBERT GRIFFITHS, delivered on November 15 2025
The origins of Juneteenth
LUKE DANIELS recalls the origin of the celebrations, as the end of the US civil war in 1865 saw the Emancipation Proclamation finally brought into effect and slaves were granted their freedom
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AS AMERICANS celebrate Juneteenth, it gives occasion to also reflect on the reasons and history of the celebration.
After the Northern US states defeated the slave-owning South in the US civil war, enslaved Africans in Galveston, Texas, were told by Major General Gordon Granger on June 19 1865, that they were now free.
This was some two-and-a-half years after president Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
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