The News Journal reports:
Georgetown farmer James Anderson still owned eight slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed and after the Civil War came to an end in April 1865.
It was only after the 13th Amendment became law on Dec. 6, 1865, that slaves in Delaware were freed.
There's more:
A newly discovered document, found by a state archivist at the Delaware Public Archives, lists the last remaining slave owners in Sussex County – men and women who among themselves claimed ownership to 525 humans. At the time, they were treated as property and taxed as such.
Juneteenth really is a dishonest scam to get another day off. Not the day slavery ended in America.
