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Podcast: The WallBuilders Show
Episode: Beyond Emancipation: What Your History Teacher Never Told You About Juneteenth- with Bill Federer
Description: Freedom rings through history on June 19th – Juneteenth – marking the moment in 1865 when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas with life-changing news for the last enslaved Americans. "The people of Texas are informed that all slaves are free," his General Order No. 3 proclaimed, finally bringing Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation to this final Confederate holdout two and a half years after it was issued.Yet the full story of Juneteenth reveals a rich historical tapestry often overlooked in contemporary tellings. The Republican Party, founded in 1854 specifically to combat slavery, championed this freedom through their first president, Abra...