Juneteenth marks the moment on June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, finally learned they were free—more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.
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Juneteenth: The History and Legacy of the Holiday that Commemorates the End of Slavery in the South
