Emancipation Day in Missouri is traditionally celebrated in Missouri in August in such communities as Boonville, Neosho, Clinton, Joplin and others.
However, for whatever reason, the Missouri legislature enacted legislation in 2003 recognizing "Emancipation Day" as June 19. This appears to be a legislative attempt to conflate the traditional Missouri celebration of Emancipation Day to Texas' celebration of its Juneteenth celebration.
The "Juneteenth Celebration" originated in Texas in honor of their June 19, 1865, belated awareness of the end of the Civil War. General Granger brought this knowledge to them. The Civil War ended April 9, 1865, when Gen. Lee surrendered to General Grant.
Missouri Emancipation Day may be rooted in one of several occurrences:
1. Gen. Fremont's unilateral declaration of Emancipation of freedom to all slaves in Missouri in August 1861, issued when he was the Union military commander of the Department of the West. This was later rescinded by President Lincoln, a few weeks later, due to alleged political concerns;
2. The Emancipation Proclamation issued January 1, 1863;
3. The Missouri Emancipation Act freeing slaves January 1, 1865; or,
4. The end of the Civil War, April 9, 1865.
I lean toward Fremont's declaration, as it actually freed some slaves in 1861, and the August date is too coincidental.
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in all of the rebel states, but it failed to set the slaves free in the 4 "border states." (Deleware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri)
The emancipation Proclamation doesn't have feeling.....
When Lincoln was president, the Emancipation Proclamation was to free all of the slaves in the Confederacy. :)
The Emancipation proclamation did not free the slaves in which state?
Slaves in the U.S. south were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
Three-Fifths Compromise, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Emancipation Proclamation
Maryland, Missouri, Delaware, and Kentucky
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It kept Britain from supporting the Confederates.
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in all of the rebel states, but it failed to set the slaves free in the 4 "border states." (Deleware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri)
In the slave-states that had remained loyal - Missouri, Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware.
The Emancipation Proclomation
Three-Fifths Compromise Missouri Compromise ,Compromise of 1850,Emancipation Proclamation
The emancipation Proclamation doesn't have feeling.....
When Lincoln was president, the Emancipation Proclamation was to free all of the slaves in the Confederacy. :)
The slave states that remained loyal to the Union were Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware.