Statistics or facts must include a citation or a link to the citation.When the emancipated Olaudah Equiano was describing his West African community of Essaka, he called his people a “nation of dancers, musicians, and poets”.
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It commemorates June 19, 1865, the day when the last enslaved people in the United States learned that they had been freed, more than two years years after the Emancipation Proclamation officially set them free. Juneteenth is an important day in American history.
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