This Juneteenth, Let’s Celebrate International Black Struggle
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Transport yourself back into the past, to the year 1865. What if you had been a slave? You had seen friends and family sold. You had been whipped and worked to exhaustion. Every day was a nightmare. Now, a Union army officer, Major General Gordon Granger, arrives in Galveston, Texas, and issues a proclamation that ends slavery. Imagine that joy. Cheers erupt. Newly freed men and women embrace.