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Over the coming week, Mainers across the state will be participating in events to mark Juneteenth, the celebration of what has come to symbolize the end of slavery in the U.S.. On June 19, 1965, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing enslaved people in rebel Confederate states, Union
A Maine group will mark Juneteenth with a weekend on the water, highlighted by inclusion in activities many people of color may see as not being for them.