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On June 19, 1865, Union Army General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and issued General Order No. 3. The order announced that enslaved people are free. In Texas, this began the enforcement of President Abraham Lincoln's January 1, 1863, Emancipation Proclamation. This event freed approximately, 250,000 enslaved people in the state. This is the foundation of Juneteenth, a federal holiday celebrating the day they learned of their freedom and the end of slavery after the Civil War.
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