The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later.
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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony Burgess
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John Locke