WASHINGTON — Each year on April 16, Washington, D.C., celebrates Emancipation Day — the day in 1862 when President Abraham Lincoln signed the DC Compensated Emancipation Act into law, freeing over ...
On Jan. 1, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, granting freedom to all enslaved persons ...
On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery in Washington, D.C., freeing more than 3,000 people. It was a joyful day that came after decades of effort by abolitionists and amid the ...
1862: President Abraham Lincoln reading the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all those enslaved in rebel-held territory would be "thenceforward, and forever, free." 1862: President ...
It's the 160th anniversary of the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation in Tallahassee, which occurred more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. Word reached Florida’s ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS – In 1861, Major General John C.
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