CNN BUSINESS | Companies are celebrating Juneteenth in unique ways this week
New York (CNN Business) – Major corporations are celebrating Juneteenth in
unique ways this week.
The annual June 19 tradition, which falls on Saturday this year, commemorates
the day in 1865 when former American slaves in Galveston, Texas, were finally
informed of President Abraham Lincoln’s January 1, 1863, Emancipation Proclamation and
the end of the Civil War.
It took Union troops more than two years to finish
travel throughout the southern United States to inform all the former slaves of
Lincoln’s executive order. The December 6, 1865, ratification of the 13th Amendment made
slavery illegal throughout the US “except as a punishment for crime.” —read
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