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Americans Celebrate Abolition of Slavery

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The United States celebrated the abolition of slavery in the 19th century. As the annual commemoration on June 19 is called, Juneteenth is a national holiday for the first time.

 

The name Juneteenth is a combination of the words June (June) and nineteenth (nineteenth), referring to the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people were liberated. That happened at the end of the civil war.

President Abraham Lincoln, who won the battle, had declared two years earlier that these people too were free citizens. Slavery then took place only in the southern states that had seceded from the US.

Juneteenth typically hosts parades and other significant events, but gatherings are smaller than usual due to the coronavirus pandemic. Commemorating the suffering of the victims of slavery is an essential part of Juneteenth.

The law-making Juneteenth, a national holiday, was passed last week by the House of Representatives and signed by President Joe Biden. The day was already a public holiday in many states, but nothing had been agreed upon nationally.

There was growing support for this after the large-scale Black Lives Matter protests that took place last year after George Floyd and other black Americans were killed by police brutality.

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