Happy Juneteenth, the day we celebrate the end of slavery in America which occurred only when federal troops in Texas were authorized to force it to occur on June 19th, 1865. Obviously, it's a happy day. But it begs the question: why not until June 19th 1865? As Wikipedia describes it,
June 19, 1865, was … 71 days after Robert E. Lee surrendered to the…
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