The Story of June Tenth

The story of june teenth is, abraham lincoln signs the emancipation proclamation on january first, 18 63 that freed slave people in states that were rebelling against the union. So contrary to our rather rosate view of the emancipation, it didn't treat everybody. It was a war strategy. Southern farms and plantations wouldn't run too well without all the unpaid labor they'd been counting on all this time. And like a lot of things before technology made news instantaneous, obviously.