The Juneteenth Run Club TeeThis product ships 3 to 5 business days after order is placed Can you imagine what it felt like to run into a freedom after being enslaved for over 246 years? Many of the enslaved that heard the news of freedom on June 19,1865 had been in slavery their entire lives, most did not even have an ancestor who had tasted freedom on American soil. Emancipation felt like an impossible dream, yet they continued to believe that God could bring freedom to them.