Do you know the history of federal holiday Juneteenth?

An important federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States nears this month.

Juneteenth is on June 19, which is the reason for the holiday’s name. This year, the holiday falls on a Thursday.

In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that enslaved people within areas rebelling against the Union during the American Civil War were free, according to the National Archives . But the proclamation came with limitations, including that it applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, said the National Archives.

Another limitation was that it couldn’t be implemented in places under Confederate control, said the National Museum of African American History and Culture , meaning that enslaved people weren’t freed until U