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The origins of Juneteenth
LUKE DANIELS recalls the origin of the celebrations, as the end of the US civil war in 1865 saw the Emancipation Proclamation finally brought into effect and slaves were granted their freedom
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MAT COWARD recalls the communist and pacifist aristocrat whose commitment made a difference in the Spanish civil war, the Blitz and WWII Europe
AS AMERICANS celebrate Juneteenth, it gives occasion to also reflect on the reasons and history of the celebration.
After the Northern US states defeated the slave-owning South in the US civil war, enslaved Africans in Galveston, Texas, were told by Major General Gordon Granger on June 19 1865, that they were now free.
This was some two-and-a-half years after president Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
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