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Actually, slavery did not end on June 19, 1865. That's supposed to be the day that the slaves in Texas (probably just in one area of Texas) learned that slavery had been abolished and that they were free.

For the areas covered by the Emancipation Proclamation, slavery ended as soon as the Confederate armies gave up the fight. Elsewhere in the slave states slavery was not officially ended until December 18, 1865, with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment. (In practical terms slavery may have ended sooner in those areas by virtue of the slaves refusing to work, since they knew the institution was about to end.)