Pryor Cashman Recognizes And Celebrates Juneteenth

Pryor Cashman joins our friends and family to celebrate and acknowledge the immense importance of the Juneteenth holiday in 2021. Americans across the nation and abroad gather to celebrate Juneteenth each year on June 19th in joy and remembrance of the end of slavery in the U.S. 

Despite many technicalities, the Emancipation Proclamation has long been noted as the formal end of slavery in the United States of America. Many formerly enslaved individuals and families across the southern states received news of the proclamation shortly thereafter. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, nearly two years before formal the end of the Civil War in April 1865. Those enslaved within Texas did not receive news of the proclamation until June 19, 1865.