A messenger rode a stubborn mule from Washington, D.C., to Texas; a boat sailed toward the shores of Galveston — these are the varied folktales of how the message of freedom came to the enslaved African people of Texas on June 19, 1865, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation and two months after the end […]

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