Juneteenth is coming up next week, appropriately enough on June 19th. But the story of the holiday, a celebration of the end of slavery in the United States, is a little complicated and deserves an explanation.
So, yes, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation to take ef…
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