… the end of both the Civil War and the inhumane system of legalized enslavement of Africans in the United States of America. Now, you know, it must be noted that This announcement came two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued an executive order that most of us know as the Emancipation Proclamation. But it is important reminder that our efforts to form a more perfect union don't really have any time frame or any date, but they are ever ongoing. (00:49–01:02)
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Asserts that the announcement in Galveston came 2.5 years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
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