To Be Free, But Not Yet Free

What Free Enslaved People Of 1835 Had In Common With Black Americans Today

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Long before the end of enslavement with the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil War ended, Juneteenth, or ratification of the 13th Amendment, depending on who and where you were. There were free Black men and women in many parts of America, especially in the North, and America's capital…