What holiday on June 19th celebrates the abolition of slavery in Texas?
Slavery in the United States remembered Emancipation Day in early 1863, when he was a boy of nine in Virginia: The war ended on June 22, 1865, and following that surrender, the Emancipation Proclamation was enforced throughout remaining regions of the South that had not yet freed the slaves. Slavery officially continued for a couple of months in other locations. Federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865, to enforce the emancipation. That day of gaining freedom in Texas is now celebrated as Juneteenth in many U.S. states. The Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery except as punishment for a crime, had been passed by
Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery The Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the full title of which is the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, is a 1956 United Nations treaty which builds upon the 1926 Slavery Convention, which is still operative and which proposed to secure the abolition of slavery and of the slave trade, and the Forced Labour Convention of 1930, which banned forced or compulsory labour, by banning debt bondage, serfdom, child marriage, servile marriage, and child servitude. Article 1 - The parties