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On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that “that all persons held as slaves” within states that had seceded from the United States “are, and henceforward shall be free.” On June 19, 1865, two and a half years later, and two months after the end of the war, Union Soldiers arrived at Galveston, Texas with news that the enslaved were now free. What might Juneteenth (the celebration of that day) offer to Unitarian Universalists, and all who commit to ongoing struggles for freedom?