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Check It Out! LORI KREIS KEWASKUM LIBARIAN On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger issued an order for the state of Texas that all slaves were free. June plus nineteenth was established as Juneteenth Day more than a century later. This order from Galveston might seem a bit delayed, but the states that were still under Confederate control were not free from slavery. Lincoln’s Emancipation