Dig Deeper Juneteenth Primary Sources

Emancipation Proclamation

The Reconstruction Amendments to the United States Constitution

Slavery by Another Name | What are the Reconstruction Amendments? | PBSHistorian Risa Goluboff explains the thirteenth, fourteenth & fifteenth amendments.

The Reconstruction Amendments to the United States Constitution

The Thirteenth Amendment - The Abolition of Slavery, 1865

https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/thirteenth-amendment

The Fourteenth Amendment - Citizenship guaranteed for formerly enslaved people, 1868

https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/fourteenth-amendment

The Fifteenth Amendment - African American men given the right to vote, 1870

www.docsteach.org/documents/document/fifteenth-amendment

JUNETEENTH General Order No. 3

National Archives Safeguards Original ‘Juneteenth’ General OrderBy Michael Davis | National Archives News WASHINGTON, June 19, 2020 — On June 19, 1865, two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln’s historic Emancipation Proclamation, U.S. Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3, which informed the people of Texas that all enslaved people were now free. Granger commanded the Headquarters District of Texas, and his troops had arrived in Galveston the previous day. Enlarge General Order No. 3, issued by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger, June 19, 1865. The order was written in a volume beginning on one page and continuing to the next.

Major General Gordon Granger, Federal Army

General Order No. 3

hand delivered by General Granger

“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.”

Born in Slavery Collection From the Federal Writer's Project

About this Collection | Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 | Digital Collections | Library of Congress Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work Projects Administration (WPA). At the conclusion of the Slave Narrative project, a set of edited transcripts was assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. In 2000-2001, with major support from the Citigroup Foundation, the Library digitized the narratives from the microfilm edition and scanned from the originals 500 photographs, including more than 200 that had never been microfilmed or made publicly available. This online collection is a joint presentation of the Manuscript and Prints and Photographs divisions of the Library of Congress.

Who was Frederick Douglass and why do you need to know about him?

A Nation's Story: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”In July of 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech titled “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?,” a call for the promise of liberty be applied equally to all Americans. Douglass’s speech emphasized that American slavery and American freedom is a shared history and that the actions of ordinary men and women, demanding freedom, transformed our nation.

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