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Juneteenth: The Slow Traveling News of Freedom
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June 19, 2021
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10:57Now Playing]Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation promised freedom to slaves, contingent upon the Union military's ability to secure victory in the Civil War. When Lincoln issued the proclamation in 1862, it targeted Confederate states that seceded from the United States. Lacking access to information and the fact that slaves were still being brutalized for attempting to read, the news of freedom was slow to reach many of the enslaved. Tera Hunter, professor of American history and African American studies at Princeton University, joins "Prime with Charles Blow" to discuss how slowly the news of freedom reached the enslaved Black Americans.
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