Historical Interview: Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 16, Texas, Part 2, Easter-King

Juneteenth

Historical Interview: Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 16, Texas, Part 2, Easter-King

07/06/1937

Historical Interview

Note: Haywood's narrative begins on page 130 of the collection. The historical photograph described within the narrative as having been taken is included as a separate source. Language may be offensive.

The Library of Congress presents a 1937 historical narrative, collected by the Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, of Felix Haywood--a formerly enslaved individual from San Antonio, Texas. Haywood provides a description of his life as an enslaved man as well as what it was like in Texas after General Order No. 3 was delivered to Galveston, Texas, by General Gordon Granger on June 19, 1865, which became known as "Juneteenth"--also known as Freedom Day or Jubilee Day, celebrates and commemorates the emancipation of enslaved individuals in the United States.

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