In the broadest sense, the word today can simply mean food cooked over a fire—usually meat, like hamburgers or shrimp kebabs, or even vegetables, like corn on the cob. Similar results were seen in elections across the South during the late s. Similar events were held in Utah and the Oregon and Washington Territories. Juneteenth has lasted the longest as a formal holiday, but Emancipation Day barbecues were held by African Americans throughout the country in the nineteenth century, even in states that had never permitted slaveholding. As the twentieth century neared, Gus Ferguson stopped cooking for Bohler and set out on his own.
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