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What is Emancipation Day?

The DC Compensated Emancipation Act of 1862 ended slavery in Washington, DC, freed 3,100 individuals, reimbursed those who had legally owned them and offered the newly freed women and men money to emigrate. It is this legislation, and the courage and struggle of those who fought to make it a reality, that we commemorate every April 16, DC Emancipation Day.

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1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 419, Washington, DC 20004
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Brentwood Road: Highway to History

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Historian, author, and lecturer, C. R. Gibbs will trace the largely forgotten past of a thoroughfare that at one time

formed part of the western boundary of Gallaudet University. Gibbs will reveal the fascinating stories of people,

buildings, and institutions that once existed along a lane whose history also forms an illuminating dimension of the growth and development of the nation's capital.

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