Tweet RICHMOND, VA — Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates Don Scott issued the following statement in observance of Juneteenth, commemorating June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, and finally informed the last enslaved Americans that they were free – more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. “When freedom finally became the law for all, it still took more than two ye…