Editing Juneteenth (section)

==== The Civil War and celebrations of emancipation ====
{{further|Slave states and free states|History of slavery in the United States by state|End of slavery in the United States|Emancipation Day#United States}}

During the American Civil War (1861–1865), emancipation came at different times in different parts of the [[Southern United States]]. Large celebrations of emancipation, often called [[Jubilee]]s (recalling the biblical [[Jubilee (biblical)|Jubilee]], in which enslaved people were freed), took place on September&nbsp;22, January&nbsp;1, July&nbsp;4, August&nbsp;1, April&nbsp;6, and November&nbsp;1, among other dates. When emancipation finally came to [[Texas]], on June 19, 1865, as the southern rebellion collapsed, celebration was widespread.<ref>{{Cite web|date=June 18, 2020|title=Juneteenth and the Emancipation Proclamation|url=https://daily.jstor.org/juneteenth-and-the-emancipation-proclamation/|website=JSTOR Daily|language=en-US|access-date=May 4, 2021|archive-date=May 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505001848/https://daily.jstor.org/juneteenth-and-the-emancipation-proclamation/|url-status=live}}</ref> While that date did not actually mark the unequivocal end of slavery, even in Texas, June 19 came to be a day of shared commemoration across the United States{{spaced ndash}}created, preserved, and spread by ordinary African Americans{{spaced ndash}}of slavery's wartime demise.<ref name="gates"/>