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Today Is Juneteenth, A Day That Commemorates The End Of Slavery

June 19, 2019 By News Staff 0

WESTERN NEW YORK – Today the nation commemorates the end of slavery. On this day in 1865, Major General Gordon Granger announced the end of the Civil War in Galveston, Texas, making all slaves free. …

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