Juneteenth: How news of the Emancipation Proclamation spread through the South

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While some enslaved people did not know about Lincoln's order, many learned of it while the fighting was still ongoing through informal networks, rumors and sometimes from slaveholders themselves. Newsiline summarises this report from NPR News and links readers to the original publisher for the full story.

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