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The Emancipation Proclamation began in 1863, but the last enslaved people would not be freed until years later. #OTD in 1865, @USArmy Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas to announce the end of slavery and the Civil War. https://t.co/zVOf1QnYZL — PolitiTweet.org