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Happy Juneteenth! - sanantone - 06-19-2019
Here's some history you may not know. The Statue of Liberty was not intended to welcome immigrants; it was intended to celebrate the abolition of slavery. However, African Americans saw it as meaningless as black codes and Jim Crow laws were passed after Reconstruction.
https://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/abolition.htm