Barack Obama actually said...

More than 2 years after President Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation, the order read by Major General Gordon Granger made plain that the relationship between 'former masters and slaves' would now be one of 'employer and free laborer.'

Context

Statement on the Observance of Juneteenth

06/18/2010

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