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.

Before issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln signs into law the Compensated Emancipation Act. Costing nearly one million dollars, the act buys freedom for all District of Columbia slaves.

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 ...

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

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

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." ...

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 ...