prompt: Did it really take over two years for the slaves in Texas to learn they were free?
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chosen.content: Did it really take over two years for the slaves in Texas to learn they were free?
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chosen.content: No, an article about the Emancipation Proclamation was published in the Texas-based Tri-Weekly Telegraph on October 17, 1862. Texas newspaper regularly referenced the proclamation from then until December 1864. While most slaves were illiterate, they would have heard their masters talking about the proclamation and therefore would have known of it. The idea that it took over two years for slaves in Texas to learn they were free is a myth, 
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rejected.content: Did it really take over two years for the slaves in Texas to learn they were free?
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