I was the first Black woman to publish my experiences and it helped push towards the Emancipation Act of 1833, which abolished slavery in most parts of the British Empire. But although people were ...

D.C. will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Emancipation Day holiday this weekend. President Abraham Lincoln signed the D ...

When the British parliament usurped a Right ... TO WREST US FROM OUR SLAVES, by and act of Legislature for general emancipation. It is unsupported by Scripture. For we find in the Old Testament ...

Mr. Kolchin also addresses, if mostly in passing, the emancipation of slaves elsewhere in the Americas, particularly in the British colonies, a mostly peaceful process mandated by an act of ...

In 2025, D.C. is celebrating 20 years of officially observing the holiday. A parade, festival, concert and fireworks will ...

I was the first Black woman to publish my experiences and it helped push towards the Emancipation Act of 1833, which abolished slavery in most parts of the British Empire. But although people were ...

TO WREST US FROM OUR SLAVES, by an act of Legislature for general emancipation ... alarmed by the "great number of slaves taken by the British army...now passing in this country as freemen." ...