Part of the Juneteenth announcement encouraged the newly freed people to remain with their past owners.

The Civil War ended in the summer of 1865. Union General Gordon Granger and his troops traveled to Galveston, Texas to announce General Order No. 3 on June 19th, 1865. The event on June 19th would go on to be known and celebrated as Juneteenth. However, the announcement consumes information that might surprise people nowadays. We would think that this announcement would encourage African American slaves to get away from their owner who was the reason why they were tied to the title "slave", but it actually did quite the opposite - it encourage them to stay with their owners and work for them.

General Order No. 3, as read by General Granger, said: "The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere."