After federal troops captured New Orleans in 1862, plantation owners from Louisiana, Mississippi, and various points east of the Sabine River began moving their human property into Confederate-held Texas. By the time the Union captured the Lone Star state on June 2, 1865, more than 150,000 enslaved men, women, and children had endured the move … Continue reading The Little-known Connection Between Juneteenth And The Development Of Coalition-based Social Justice Advocacy