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Andy Craig Note: This blog was first posted on June 19, 2020. Juneteenth was declared a federal holiday in June 2021, signed into law by President Joe Biden. On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3 from the balcony of Ashton Villa in Galveston,

Today these reasons or very similar ones are used by opponents of a different form of abolitionism: the proposal that government as we know it — monopolistic, individually nonconsensual rule by an armed group that demands obedience and payment of taxes — be abolished.