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A Witness to Juneteenth

A Witness to Juneteenth

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Bucks County Free Library - Doylestown, 150 S Pine St, Doylestown, PA, 18901

Performance art sponsored by the Friends of the Doylestown Library.  Meet Arugbo, an enslaved young woman who witnesses Juneteenth when it arrives in Galveston, Texas, in June 1865 (two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation). She is a character imagined by Ms. Doreen Stratton after DNA ancestry on her mother’s side discovered her Great Grandmother was born enslaved in Caroline County, Virginia. Please register at Friendsofdoylestownlibrary@gmail.com for this free event.

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