On June 19 1865 thousands of slaves in Texas learned that the Civil War had ended in April, that slavery in the United States was abolished, and that they were free. #Juneteenth
"As a nation, as a collective, we’ve never really acknowledged the 250-plus years of slavery, and the depth of it, and the trauma it caused and the wealth it created. We haven’t really had an accounting for that."
#Juneteenth
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Jun 19, 2019 · 5:23 PM UTC
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