07/02/2021
“ In spite of the fact that the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 altered the status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the South from slave to free, it did not emancipate some hundreds of thousands of people who remained slaves until the 1960s.
As historian and genealogist Antoinette Harrell discovered, slaves in Southern states such as Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Florida were still being held in slavery more than a century after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.”
But y’all go head and celebrate the 4th
In spite of the fact that the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 altered the status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the South from slave to free, it did not emancipate some hundreds of thousands of people who remained slaves until the 1960s.
