Juneteenth is a holiday that celebrates the day when U.S. Major Gen. Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, declaring the local slaves to be free.
The youngest federal holiday in the United States, becoming one when President Joe Biden signed a law in 2021, Juneteenth is also called Freedom Day, Jubilee Day and Liberation Day.
The abolition of slavery was a generations-long struggle, which featured not only famous people like Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth, but also many lesser-known figures who did their part to end the oppressive institution.
In honor of the Juneteenth holiday, here are seven notable African-American abolitionists that you might not have heard of yet.
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