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Juneteenth
Juneteenth, officially Juneteenth National Independence Day, is a federal holiday in the United States. It is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. The holiday's name, first used in the 1890s, is a portmanteau of June and nineteenth, referring to June 19, 1865, the day when Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War.
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thumb|Kwakoe (statue)|Kwakoe statue in [[Paramaribo, representing a former slave whose chains are cut]]

Emancipation Day
commemoration and public holiday to mark emancipation of enslaved people