🇺🇸 USA 3d ago · Devon Thomas

Freedom is not free for everyone

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This commentary is by Devon Thomas, the new pastor serving Bethany Church in Montpelier and the United Church of Northfield. He is also a proud Black Vermonter.



On June 19, 1865, the U.S. Army proclaimed to the people of Galveston, Texas, that the enslaved Black people of Texas were emancipated.



The fact that this proclamation came nearly three years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation had freed all enslaved people of the Confederacy, and that this freedom had to be won by force thro

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