Long before General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston Bay, June 19, 1865, sun beat hot on black bent-backs, a many sweaty, cotton-pickin’, cane-shuckin’, hard-laborin’ morning in slave-country, Texas. Juneteenth was but a promise waiting on the other side of freedom 2Ã?½ years late and – 40 acres and a mule short. Grandma Matty broke into … Continue reading Juneteenth: Celebration or Revelation