On June 19th, 1865, a Union general arrived to Texas with news that slavery had ended. It was an announcement two and a half years too late, and one that today calls upon us all to remain vigilant.
Beriah Brown was a frontier newspaperman who defended slavery and the South during the Civil war. His work infuriated Union supporters who drove him out of San Francisco under threat of lynching. He fled to Seattle to escape the past and start over.