Juneteenth became a thing because of a problem. After the end of the Civil War and slavery with it, Confederate-controlled areas withheld the news that the Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery on January 1, 1863. It took another two and a half years for Union troops to finally arrive in Galveston Bay, Texas, to finally […]

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