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Why We Observe Emancipation Day

The District of Columbia celebrates April 16 as Emancipation Day.  On that day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, which ended slavery in Washington, D.C., freed about 3,100 slaves in the District of Columbia, reimbursed those who had legally owned them and offered the newly freed women and Read more …