Confederate slaves were emancipated in Union-held 
terroritories by way of the Emancipation Proclamation, 
January 1, 1863.
	"Union authorities issued a military order effective 26 
May 1865" ending slavery in Virginia, and some slaveholders 
grudingly noted this in their slave ledgers (Jordan, BLACK 
CONFEDERATES AND AFRO-YANKEES IN CIVIL WAR VIRGINIA, pp. 
301-302)
Texas slaves (Galveston Island) were informed by Union 
military officials of the Emancipation Proclamation on 19 
June 1865 (Juneteenth).
Slavery ended in the United States on 18 December 1865 
(Thirteenth Amendment).
Prof. Ervin L. Jordan, Jr. (Associate Professor)
University of Virginia
Research Archivist, Special Collections, Harrison/Small 
Library

--On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 5:20 PM -0500 Jane Steele 
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hollis: This is very exciting.  Several African-American
> chuches in Winston-Salem,NC celebrate Emancipation Day
> each year on January 1st.  If you wish to read about this
> years' celebration please goggle the Winston-Salem
> Chronicle, an African-American-American paper located in
> Winston-Salem,NC.  The editor is Ernie Pitt. Jane Steele.
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Hollis Gentry <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Jan 23, 2007 5:10 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: [VA-HIST] Emancipation Celebraton in Norfolk on
>> January 1st
>>
>> Norfolk freedmen initially celebrated Emancipation Day
>> on January 1, 1863.  I discovered an article on the
>> history of the celebration in the February 26, 1926
>> issue of the Norfolk Journal and Guide.  I chanced
>> upon it as one of my relatives was a member of the
>> planning committee and another served as a marshall in
>> later emancipation parades.
>>
>> The article goes on to provide details of the history
>> of the event, noting that preparations for the
>> celebration began not long after September 23, 1862,
>> when news of Lincoln's proclamation appeared in a
>> local newspaper.
>>
>> Apparently, notes and minutes of the planning meeting
>> survived until 1926, when those papers were sent to
>> the newspaper, hence the publication of the article.
>>
>>
>> Hollis L. Gentry
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