🔒 Test your history knowledge with Juneteenth quiz Celebrating Juneteenth weekend
Many people are still learning about Juneteenth. It’s the recognition of the end of slavery in the United States and just became a federal holiday last year.
June 19 is the date that Southern slaves were notified that the Emancipation Proclamation had abolished slavery in those states had been outlawed and they were free people. Take the quiz and learn more about the oldest known U.S. celebration of the end of slavery.
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