{"id":149,"date":"2008-06-19T12:50:40","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T12:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2008\/06\/happy-juneteenth-everyone.html"},"modified":"2008-06-19T12:50:40","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T12:50:40","slug":"happy-juneteenth-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2008\/06\/happy-juneteenth-everyone.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Juneteenth, everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s your daily lesson in U.S. history: On June 19th, 1865, Union soldiers in Galveston, Texas declared an end to the Civil War and  read aloud a general order freeing the quarter-million slaves residing in the state. &#8220;Juneteenth&#8221; has come to be celebrated as the day slavery ended in the United States, though it&#8217;s not a legal holiday in every state. 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