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RT @jelani9@twitter.com

Some things worth remembering on Juneteenth: Texas’ size and isolation allowed slavers to keep knowledge of Emancipation from the enslaved. Large slaveholders in coastal areas also moved enslaved people around the state to avoid the Union Army & therefore Emancipation.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/jelani9/status/114

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