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Northshore October 2025
On Saturday, June 18 from 11- 3 pm, the Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail will present a series of free events open to the public for its annual Junteenth Celebration. Although President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, in the fall of 1862, declared that as of January 1, 1863, all slaves in states in rebellion against the Union "shall be then, thenceforward, and forever be free,” it was not until June 19 1865, two years later, that the enslaved people in Galveston, Texas got the news that the war had ended and they were free. Portsmouth’s Junteenth Celebration “Coming to the Table: A Journey of Discovery Be
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