オリヴィア・ワイルドさんのインスタグラム写真 - (オリヴィア・ワイルドInstagram)「“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.” From the National Archives, via @nytimes : General Granger marched into Texas with about 2,000 troops in June 1865, two months after Gen. Robert E. Lee of the Confederacy surrendered to Union forces at Appomattox, Va., marking what some historians have called the beginning of the end of the deadliest war in American history. The announcement would not have been a total surprise. People in Texas knew that the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed two years earlier — in fact, some slave owners had moved to Texas, the westernmost Confederate state, to escape the reach of Union enforcers. The June 19 order did not merely call for enslaved people to be free; it also advised them to “remain at their present homes and work for wages,” and it warned that “they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.” ...the racist language used in the last sentences foreshadowed that the fight for equal rights would continue. #juneteenth」6月20日 9時43分