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Juneteenth is a second Independence Day for America
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 6 days agoFinally, the slaves in Texas knew that the long war was over, as was their far longer bondage. It still took time for slavery to officially end when 13th Amendment to the Constitution ...
A Miami-Dade man, 83, believes his father was among the last Americans born into slavery
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 6 days agoCouncil of South Miami-Dade, an economic-development organization, after Hurricane Andrew devastated...
Harvard study: Feds well-positioned to provide slavery reparations
The Day· 2 days agoA man wears a button on his suit jacket during a rally in support of reparations for African...
‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’ handed keys to new Texas home 85 years after racist mob burned it down
The Independent via Yahoo News· 6 days agoBut the order did not end the enslavement of all people in the nation at the time. The 13th...
How did Juneteenth get its name? The story behind the holiday's title
CBS News via Yahoo News· 6 days agoAlthough the Emancipation Proclamation set the stage, critically, for an end to slavery throughout...
How Slavery Radicalized Lysander Spooner
Ludwig von Mises Institute· 6 days agoHow does a radical libertarian abolitionist attorney from the North go from passionately defending the United States Constitution–arguing that the document prohibited slavery ...
Looking Back: The connection between John P. Hale’s Daughter and Abraham Lincoln’s assassin
New Hampshire Union Leader· 2 days agoIn the last months of his third term as a U.S. senator in 1864 and early 1865, Dover’s John P. Hale...
Blow: Juneteenth marked end to slavery; freedom’s taken longer | HeraldNet.com
Everett Herald· 6 days agoLast week at a Juneteenth concert on the South Lawn of the White House, Vice President Kamala Harris said that on June 19, 1865, after Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, “The enslaved ...
