Juneteenth — a combination of the words June and nineteenth — is one of the oldest known holidays commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. It was on June 19, 1865, that the nation`s last enslaved people — a group in Texas — learned that slavery had been outlawed and that they were free. The events leading to what many call "America`s true Independence Day" began with the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863.
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