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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth

Celebration of the "end of slavery". Quoted because the 14th amendment still allows enslavement for criminals.

June 19, 1865, the day when Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War.[8][9]

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