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this? reporter: many here say now is the time to honor a history too often overlooked. enslaved people reporter: this man is a historian with galveston s juneteenth project. where are we? we are at pier 21 where enslaved african-americans arrived. reporter: mostly black union soldiers rode into texas to tell slaveholders they had to respect the emancipation proclamation signed two years earlier. in the union soldiers are not arrived, i don t think they would have enforced it until this day. reporter: why residents here say this history still matters. what do you hope that people take away when they walk by and see this work of art? i want people to be inspired and hopefully learn something they didn t know before they saw the work of art. reporter: a work of art honoring the past. craig, what s interesting is the

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