
2025-06-21 21:48:02
Quoting Union General Gordon Granger from General Order No. 3, which declared that enslaved people of Texas were free:
“…the connection heretofore existing between them [enslaved people and their owners] becomes that between employer and HIRED LABOR.” (caps mine)
That was BULLSHIT. (It helped, tho.)
#Freedom #HumanRights