Yesterday was Juneteenth — a holiday commemorating the freedom of enslaved people in the rebelling states of the US. Nathan Howard / Getty Images June 19 was made a federal holiday by former President ...
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The ...
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