Editors note: Actor Dwayne Barnes writes occasional columns here at Deadline and today he confronts his mixed feelings that come with the official holiday status of Juneteenth.Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.
It stated that all enslaved people in the Confederate states “Shall be then, and henceforth forever free.” However, this didn’t instantly come into reality.
It took two more years; troops had to go and take control of the state to ensure that just as the proclamation stated, “all enslaved people were free.”That day was June 19, 1865, or Juneteenth, when slaves officially wiped the sweat off their brows and walked away from slavery and into freedom land.Honestly, I’ve never celebrated Juneteenth.
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