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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 Day Commemoration Lecture Program

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Presented by the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site and DC Reading Is Fundamental, Inc.

 

Featuring Historian CR Gibbs, presenting "Twelve Years A Slave: Solomon Northrup's Washington."

The presentation will trace the kidnapping of Northrup in Washington, DC and his return to the city to seek justice.

It will include a portrait of slave life in the Washington, DC area in the 1840's and 1850's, and the District of Columbia's Emancipation.

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