The United States’ newest federal holiday, celebrated annually on June 19, has quickly become its most puzzling one. Four years after President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National ...

Today, we have the opportunity to fully realize the promise of freedom symbolized by Juneteenth through guaranteed income programs.

New Jersey didn’t ratify the 13th Amendment, which abolished enslavement, until 1866. Despite this delay, Black people in New Jersey still found their freedom and practiced their autonomy in ...

That would come on December 6, 1865, when the 13th Amendment passed, he said. Years of reconstruction would follow as former slaves and their families worked to reunite, establish political power ...

True to its history, New Jersey clung so desperately to America’s original wealth-building institution that the state refused to ratify the 13th Amendment until 1866. Even then it compensated ...

Therefore, it took until June 19, 1865, for slaves in Texas to be freed. Slavery in America was formally abolished with the 13th Amendment, which was ratified Dec. 6, 1865.

Although Congress passed the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States in January 1865, it still needed to be ratified by state legislatures.

Therefore, it took until June 19, 1865, for slaves in Texas to be freed. Slavery in America was formally abolished with the 13th Amendment, which was ratified Dec. 6, 1865.

In 2022, Alabama became one of the first states in the nation to ban slavery without exception. A constitutional amendment, passed overwhelmingly by voters, removed language that had long allowed ...

The Confederacy was rooted in racial hatred — the determination to maintain slavery. Delaware — the First State — was among the last states to formally ratify the 13th Amendment that outlawed slavery.

The holiday commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, marking when enslaved people in Texas received news of the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation was issued on Sept. 22, 1862, ...