Did Lincoln Really Want to Outlaw Slavery?
By Carole Hornsby Haynes June 19, 2024
Today is Juneteenth, a reference to June 19, 1865 when Union forces arrived in Galveston, Texas and informed the slaves of their freedom under Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Yet slavery did not legally end on June 19, 1865, but with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment on December 6, 1865. Talk show hosts and parade attendees parroted the leftwing narrative that all slaves in America were freed by Lincoln’s executive order. Implied was that Southerners were racists who did not want slaves to know they were free and the South remains guilty and racist.