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Juneteenth Freedom Celebration

June 18, 2013 | 10,226 views

In order to celebrate Juneteenth, an event celebrated the true freeing of the slaves. It commemorates the delivery of the message of the end of slavery to a group of slaves in Galveston, Texas, in June 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect in the United States.