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Union Soldier

Juneteenth in Galveston, Texas were created in 1865 to observe 19th June as the African-American emancipation day. Two and a half years after Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, Union soldiers landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and the enslaved were free. Many great men and women were in the [...]

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