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Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery on June 19th 1865, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation. This Emancipation Proclamation, printed in 1862, was created as a miniature so that Union soldiers could each carry 50 copies to be handed out and distributed to people who had yet to hear the news.
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