Wiktionary:Word of the day/2024/June 19
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Today is Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. On this day in 1865, Union Army General Gordon Granger read out General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, stating that all previously enslaved people in Texas were now free. | |
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