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This is a woke myth that's easily discredited by some fact checking. They didn't "milk two extra years of labor."
The emancipation proclamation was signed into law in 1863, in the middle of the civil war. Texas was still under full control of the confederacy at this time and obviously didn't recognize any authority of the federal government.
Union soldiers still had to go into the south and physically make the emancipation proclamation a reality.
This is an anti historical take.
Reality is they were freed in 1863 and in the south, especially in frontier areas of Texas, this proclamation was intentionally withheld from the slaves.
So while it's true they weren't actually freed they also didn't know they are legally free for over two years.
And even still, if you want to take this narrow view, the war ended April 9th 1865. April is a few months before June isn't it? At the very least the Texans continued to deliberately not tell the slaves about emancipation for several months after the war until Union troops informed them.