On June 19, 1865, Union general Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and issued General Order Number 3, which informed enslaved people in the South about their freedom. The tidings of freedom reached the approximately 250,000 slaves in Texas gradually, as individual plantation owners informed their slaves over the months following the end of the war. […]
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