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About Juneteenth June 19, 1865 made history in the United States as the day symbolizing when African-American people were freed from slavery. It is known as the day that slavery formally ended and news of the Emancipation Proclamation finished spreading through the states. In the celebrations that followed, June 19 quickly became known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, or Juneteenth. Juneteenth is a meshing of June and nineteenth. Today, Juneteenth is a national holiday. |
“Everybody went wild. We all felt like heroes and nobody had made us that way but ourselves. We was free. Just like that, we was free.”
Felix Haywood, former slave
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The 13th Amendment of the United States reads,
Section 1
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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