Juneteenth is an American holiday celebrated annually on the 19th of June in the United States to commemorate the reading of federal orders in the city of Galveston, Texas, on 19 June 1865, proclaiming that all enslaved persons in the U.S. state of Texas were now free. This was years after the Emancipation Proclamation, but […]
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