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Mississippi Edition - 6/20/2022 - Emancipation in Mississippi

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We hope you're enjoying some time off on this Freedom Day in the U.S. The Juneteenth holiday, of course, marks the date on which enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned in 1865 they were legally free.

Today, we'd like to revisit the story of emancipation in Mississippi.