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When did slavery end5/5/2023 “We as a nation should have a celebration of an end to this terrible period in history,” he said. Donna Patterson, Chair of the Department of History, Political Science, and Philosophy at Delaware State University.Įven though slavery still persisted in Delaware and elsewhere, Woolford said Juneteenth has rightly been established as the observation of slavery’s end. Reba Hollingsworth, Vice Chair of the Delaware Heritage Commission, historian Sylvester Woolford, and Dr. He hosted an online forum on Juneteenth with Black leaders including Dr. “If we don’t educate ourselves and acknowledge the ugly history around race, we can’t begin to understand the anger and frustration that we’ve seen,” said Gov. WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsor Those still held in slavery on June 19 would not be freed until December of 1865 when the 13th Amendment was ratified.ĭelaware prides itself on being “The First State” for ratifying the Constitution before any other, but it was among the last to ratify the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery, waiting until February 1901, more than 35 years after the end of the Civil War. Most of those were in southern Delaware’s rural Sussex County, although smaller numbers were held throughout the state. The last complete census in 1860 found 1,900 people living in slavery in Delaware. The holiday celebrates Jwhen federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas bringing word that the Civil War had ended and any enslaved people were now freed via President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.īut because Delaware was a border state between the North and South, Lincoln’s order did not apply to slaves in the First State. As Juneteenth’s observance is getting more attention and being adopted more widely as an official holiday, there’s growing attention to how people were held in slavery in Delaware even after the date commemorated as Juneteenth.
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