Juneteenth
1865 · Event
Union troops reach Galveston and proclaim freedom to Texas's quarter-million enslaved people, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation — now a US federal holiday.
On these timelines: American Civil War, Slavery & Abolition, Master, USA
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