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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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John A. Wilson Building
1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 419, Washington, DC 20004
Phone: (202) 727-6306

DC Emancipation Commemoration Lecture Program

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Presented by the National Park Service in cooperation with DC Reading Is Fundamental, Inc.

In honour of

  • 151st Anniversary of the District of Columbia Emancipation Act (April 16, 1862)
  • 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War (2011-2015)
  • 206th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the British Empire (March 25, 1807)

Remembering those victims of the slave trade and slavery; who advocated for and abolished slavery; who fought for freedom in the US Civil War Union forces; and enslaved persons freed.

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