I learned that today was Juneteenth the annual commemoration of the end of African slavery in American in 1865. African slavery was abolished in the British West Indies on August 28, 1833, thirty years before the USA.
@khurtwilliams Living near Washington DC, which has it's own similar holiday, Emancipation Day, it's always striking to me when Juneteenth comes around to think about how long it took from the Emancipation Proclimation to the actual end to slavery in the US.