Most Americans mark the Fourth of July as the nation’s Independence Day, and in recent years Juneteenth has rightly gained national recognition as the moment Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to finally enforce emancipation. Enslaved Texans had long heard that freedom had been declared, but without federal authority it remained only a promise. …
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