In 2021, Juneteenth was made a federal holiday. It’s a day that has long been celebrated as the end of slavery: June 19, 1865 (two years after the Civil War) was when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, were officially informed that they were free. It took two years after the war was over for the ...
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