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Most of us know by now that Juneteenth commemorates the day when Union general Gordon Granger informed enslaved African Americans of Galveston, Texas, of their freedom on June 19, 1865. More than two months after Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate forces at Appomattox, Va., and two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slavery ended in one sense.

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