06/19/2024
Here at TyChi Productions, we don’t take it lightly we are literally our ancestors wildest dreams. 🥹
Juneteenth is a relatively new national holiday, but it’s not new to most African-Americans.
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In 1863, during the American Civil War, Pres. Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared more than three million enslaved people living in the Confederate states to be free.
More than two years would pass, however, before the news reached African Americans living in Texas. It was not until Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, that the state’s residents finally learned that slavery had been abolished.
The formerly enslaved immediately began to celebrate with prayer, feasting, song, and dance.
We do all things in excellence in homage and respect to all of our ancestors who didn’t have the opportunity. ✊🏽
Happy Juneteenth!