Emancipation Day in United States
Emancipation Day in United States is held on January 1. This event in the first decade of the month January is annual. 
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The United States has a dark history of slavery. Unfortunately, this is something that is not talked about much.
On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation to abolish slavery. More than two years passed before this news reached the slaves who lived in Texas. On June 19, 1865, Union Army Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and informed the slaves that they were free.
It has taken more than 150 years for the national government to declare this day a national holiday.
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