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Jun 19, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Short history thread in honor of a special day:

#Juneteenth is a holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in America, but the proclamation issued by the Union army in Texas on June 19, 1865, did not end slavery in the United States. (1/3) Slavery remained legal in Kentucky and Delaware until the ratification of the 13th Amendment was declared on December 6, 1865. Unlike the border states of Maryland and Missouri, Kentucky and Delaware had refused to abolish slavery by state action. (2/3)