Sabbath and Juneteenth

In 2021, President Biden declared Juneteenth a national holiday. Juneteenth marks the day (June 19th, 1865) on which the final slaves, living in Galveston, TX, learned that the Civil War had ended and heard the Emancipation Proclamation for the first time—two and a half years after President Lincoln had delivered it. Like the Sabbath, Juneteenth is also a seed of shalom, planted but not fully grown.