Help Use the excerpt and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following question. "The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and free laborer."

– General Order Number 3, June 19, 1865

Question: What was the significance of the order above?

A. It explained that in Texas slaves were the property of their masters.

B. It informed the slaves in Texas that they were free.

C. It freed all the slaves in the South.

D. It abolished slavery in the United States.