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Happy Juneteenth!
To a lot of people the emancipation of the slaves at the end of the Civil War seems like it happened a long time ago, but there are many people alive today (myself included) who are old enough to have met someone who was emancipated at the end of the Civil War.
It wasn't really that long ago.
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@Pat there are voice recording from people who were slaves. These recordings can be found online in the library of Congress. I’ve had people tell slavery was so long ago, but the scars still linger to this day.