Emancipation Day is celebrated every May in Florida to commemorate the day in 1865 when news of freedom officially reached ...

1862: President Abraham Lincoln reading the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all those enslaved in rebel-held territory would be "thenceforward, and forever, free." Eight score and three ...

A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln is available for public viewing at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (ALPLM) in Springfield. The historic ...

The public announcement and implementation of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was fraught with political and policy implications. Lincoln had decided to issue the proclamation—effectively ...

Emancipation Day was celebrated with a full expression of culture and community; music, food, craft, ceremony and ...

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The public is invited to Peterboro, in Madison County, on Wednesday for a New Year’s Eve event commemorating the issuing of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in 1862. Events run ...