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 ...

DC was only part of the U.S. to pay off slave owners for freeing enslaves persons they held.

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 ...

D.C. Emancipation Day celebrations continue, with a parade, festival, and concert commemorating the end of slavery in the ...

D.C. after President Lincoln signed the DC Compensated Emancipation Act in 1862. District residents marked the first anniversary after the Civil War with a parade. For the last 159 years ...

The island’s very first Emancipation Day celebration, marking the British Empire’s Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, was held in ...

D.C. will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Emancipation Day holiday this weekend. President Abraham Lincoln signed the D.C. Compensated Emancipation Act into law on ...