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Holiday. on a personality level, can you tell us the importance of this finally becoming a holiday. >> thank you very much. i was the first member to introduce this legislation you can imagine the feeling i have being here in galveston, which is where general granger dame to give the general order number three, to say that the slaves were free. because we did this in a unique way in the senate, with the unanimous consent in the senate, i give this as a gift to america. this is a unity gift so that americans can come together to understand slavery, and that we can continue to build on an equal ...
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