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A summary about juneteenth

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Juneteenth is the day that Abe Lincoln declared that all slaves have to go free.So it should be important for black people and a memory about how some white people sacrifice for us.

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Juneteenth is a holiday, or commemoration meant to celebrate word of emancipation finally coming to a group of enslaved people in Galveston, Texas. It commemorates this group of slaves who learned that they had been emancipated months earlier. The holiday is meant to commemorate the emancipation of 4 million slaves, but particularly the small handful who weren't aware that emancipation had come months earlier.

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