How well do you know Emancipation Day?
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Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger (pictured here) informed slaves of their emancipation from slavery. In what town did this event take place?
Granger delivered the news, known as General Orders, No. 3, in Galveston, Texas.
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