Symone Sanders Townsend: Teaching the truth about Juneteenth feels heavier this year

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Symone Sanders Townsend: Teaching the truth about Juneteenth feels heavier this year
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.SymoneDSanders: I can think of nothing more dangerous than the frontal assault on our nation’s true history.

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That on the first day of January in the year of our lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, all persons held as slaves within any state, are designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress...

Those words are taken from the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, issued following the Union Army’s victory at the brutal Battle of Antietam in Maryland. These words served as Lincoln’s formal notification to the Confederacy of his intention to free all enslaved people in the rebellious states. One hundred days later, on Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln kept his word and issued what we know today as the Emancipation Proclamation.

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