160 years of Emancipation celebrated

Posted on May 15, 2025
Hailey Heseltine news@greenepublishing.com Tuesday, May 20th, marks the 160th anniversary of Florida Emancipation Day, when the Emancipation Proclamation was read aloud in Tallahassee, officially declaring all enslaved people in the state as legally free.   National Emancipation Day is celebrated on April 16th, when Abraham Lincoln signed the Compensated Emancipation Act into law in 1862, thereby finally granting legal freedom to enslaved people in the District of Colombia and freeing
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