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Why is it called juneteenth instead of emancipation day

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Since it was June 19 that slavery was formally abolished (although it did take another few months to fully come into effect), June the Nineteenth, or rather Juneteenth became a turning point in American history. It is now widely symbolic of the day African Americans got their freedom and slavery ended in the USA.
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