Juneteenth has been made a holiday by Vox Media, so today, on the 155th anniversary of Union army general Gordon Granger’s reading of federal orders in the city of Galveston, Texas proclaiming all slaves in Texas were now free, we will not be covering anything TCU Athletics related.
Instead, here is some of the history of this historic day from a Fort Worth perspective.
Texas was the last state to emancipate its slaves after the Civil War. Late in the 1800s, information transfer was a little slower, an it was a full two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and several months after Robert E.