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Celebrated as the end of slavery in the US. Obviously excludes the clause of the 13th Amendment that served as a loophole, but emancipation holidays aren't always so cut-and-dry.
Ir's weird how I've never heard about this, seeing how prevalentie American culture is in popular media.
likely because it's somewhat an uncomfortable holiday, celebrating when slaves in Texas were told they had been free for 2 and a half years, but didn't know it yet, and the slave owners were forced by the army to set them free.
It's also relatively new as a federal holiday, only added in 2021. Before that it was largely officially observed only in Texas and a handful of cities.