“Many of us in the United States have grown up with the idea that the Fourth of July is just about as American as you can get. But there's another event that deserves our attention (and federal recognition): June 19, 1865.” Juneteenth oprahmagazine
the Emancipation Proclamation that declared all enslaved people in the rebellious Confederate states—Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia—were free. But this executive order did not fully abolish slavery in the U.S., as it didn't apply to those held as property in bordering states who were loyal to the Union.
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