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Juneteenth Festival 2022 8th Annual Bluffton Juneteenth Celebration
The annual Bluffton Juneteenth Celebration will be held June 17th, 2022 thru June 19th, 2022. On Friday, June, 17th the Black Food Friday Food Truck Event/Spades Tournament will be held 5:00 pm -10:00 pm. Location TBD. Please visit The Bluffton MLK Overvance Committee for the latest details.
On Saturday, June 18th, from 4:00 pm till 10:00 pm and Sunday, June 19th, from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm Burnt Church Distillery located at 120 Bluffton Road will host the Annual Bluffton Juneteenth Celebration. This event is free and will feature Gullah vendors, food trucks, live entertainment, and a brunch on Sunday. This is a family-friendly event.
What is Juneteenth?
Juneteenth commemorates the effective end of slavery in the United States.
Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth honors the end to slavery in the United States and is considered the longest-running African American holiday.
Confederate General Robert E. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox Court House two months earlier in Virginia, but slavery had remained relatively unaffected in Texas—until U.S. General Gordon Granger stood on Texas soil and read General Orders No. 3: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.”
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, had established that all enslaved people in Confederate states in rebellion against the Union “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
But in reality, the Emancipation Proclamation didn’t instantly free any enslaved people. The proclamation only applied to places under Confederate control and not to slave-holding border states or rebel areas already under Union control. However, as Northern troops advanced into the Confederate South, many enslaved people fled behind Union lines.
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