Residents Celebrate Juneteenth at Douglass Park

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Posted 7:28 PM 6/16/2012 : Residents Celebrate Juneteenth at Douglass Park

COLUMBIA - The Juneteenth celebration on Saturday marked the unofficial Freedom Day, when a Union general in Galveston, Texas announced to slaves there that they had been freed. This was two years after President Abraham Lincoln made the official Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.

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