Wallbuilders Live! With David Barton & Rick Green

Freedom rings through history on June 19th – Juneteenth – marking the moment in 1865 when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas with life-changing news for the last enslaved Americans. "The people of Texas are informed that all slaves are free," his General Order No. 3 proclaimed, finally bringing Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation to this final Confederate holdout two and a half years after it was issued.Yet the full story of Juneteenth reveals a rich historical tapestry often overlooked in contemporary tellings. The Republican Party, founded in 1854 specifically to combat slavery, championed this freedom through their first president, Abraham Lincoln. Following a conflict that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, the Union victory didn't just end a war – it transformed a nation's moral foundations.While we celebrate June 19th as the day freedom finally reached Texas, it's crucial to understand that the Emancipation Proclamation itself had limitati