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Juneteenth: Celebrating the End of Slavery: Media

In the middle of June, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the slaves of Texas were finally freed.

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Scenes from the end of the American Civil War
Emancipation, drawn by Thomas Nast and engraved by King & Baird, c. 1865.
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