How Tennessee's oldest town played a role in emancipation with publication

JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) — Friday is Juneteenth, which commemorates Emancipation Day, the end of slavery, as the final enforcement of the "Emancipation Proclamation" was ordered in Texas on this day in 1865. While Jonesborough is commonly known as Tennessee's oldest town, it was also home to the nation's first abolitionist newspaper, published by Elihu Embree [...]