BHS e259 Early Town Government and Local Connection to Juneteenth

There are certainly different ways to measure this, but it could be said that this summer is really the 250th anniversary of functional town government in Brattleboro. On June 19, 1865, seventeen African Americans credited to Brattleboro during the Civil War were traveling through Texas when US Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas to proclaim that “all slaves are free”. Here are these stories...