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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone know why it's called "Juneteenth" and not like emancipation day or something else? [/quote]

It's a regional holiday that evolved naturally, and then when the feds were looking for a way to commemorate the end of slavery, they chose to make it national.

But it's not emancipation day.  That's a different day.[/quote]

Could be called "Last emancipation day" instead of "Juneteenth."[/quote]

Why?[/quote]

In Maryland, Emancipation Day is celebrated in early November. Maryland was one of the first states to abolish slavery, ending it in 1864 a year before the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth is a national holiday celebrating the end of slavery. It did start out as a Texas regional celebration and now it's a Federal Holiday.. [/quote]

But why is this the national day of the celebration of end of slavery? [b]It's the day some general in Texas made a declaration.[/b] It wasn't national.[/quote]

But that's the point.  The slaves did not know they were free until General Gordon Granger told them.  Juneteeth is the date when the last of the slaves were freed.[/quote]

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