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** Earliest day on which Emancipation Day can fall, celebrated on the first Monday of August.
** Emancipation Day ( Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago )
* Emancipation Day ( Saint Vincent and the Grenadines )
* Juneteenth, ( aka Freedom Day or Emancipation Day ) primarily in Texas June 19,
* Keti Koti ( Emancipation Day ) in Surinam, July 1
* 1863 – Keti Koti ( Emancipation Day ) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
* Emancipation Day ( Netherlands Antilles )
* Emancipation Day or Keti Koti ( Suriname )
* Emancipation Day ( United States Virgin Islands )
* Emancipation Day, celebrate the emancipation of enslaved Africans in New York City in 1827.
* Serfs Emancipation Day ( Tibet )
* Emancipation Day ( Florida )
* Emancipation Day or Día de la Abolición de la Esclavitud ( Puerto Rico )
Culturama, the annual cultural festival of Nevis, is celebrated during the Emancipation Day weekend, the first week of August.
August the 1st is now celebrated as a public holiday and is called Emancipation Day.
* July – ( 3rd ) Emancipation Day, ( 4th ) Independence Day ( St. John Festival is held on both days )
** Emancipation Day in Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, and Jamaica – celebration of the end of slavery in these former and continuing British colonies in the Caribbean.
* March 22 – Emancipation Day for Puerto Rico: Slaves are freed ( with a few exceptions ).
Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, is a holiday in the United States that commemorates the announcement of the abolition of slavery in the U. S. State of Texas in 1865.
* Emancipation Day
The date becomes celebrated annually in Texas as Juneteenth, and later as an official state holiday known as Emancipation Day.
Emancipation and Washington
In 1984 Hampton University dedicated a Booker T. Washington Memorial on campus near the historic Emancipation Oak, establishing, in the words of the University, " a relationship between one of America's great educators and social activists, and the symbol of Black achievement in education.
* The Emancipation Memorial ( 1875 ) in Washington, D. C.
Triple albums are released across genres, including punk with The Clash's Sandinista !, alternative rock with Pearl Jam's 11 / 6 / 00 – Seattle, Washington, and mainstream pop with Prince's Emancipation.
The municipality of Washington, D. C., celebrates April 16 as Emancipation Day.
On April 12 and 13, 2012, the Jazz Ensemble played two concerts for Washington, D. C .' s 150th Emancipation Day celebrations at the Lincoln Theatre.
Washington Place ( William Washington House ) is one of the first homes built by freed slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 in Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States.
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* A Popular History of Ireland: from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics, Thomas D ' Arcy McGee, Cameron & Ferguson
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He issued his Emancipation Proclamation only when he felt that necessity left him no other way to save the Union.
His credulity is perhaps best illustrated in his introduction to The Emancipation Of Massachusetts, which purports to examine the trials of Moses and to draw a parallel between the leader of the Israelite exodus from Egypt and the leadership of the Puritan clergy in colonial New England.
Even D. A. Wasson, who compared The Emancipation Of Massachusetts to the lifting of a fog from ancient landscapes, was also forced to admit the methodological deficiencies of the author.
The dark views about the Puritans found in The Emancipation Of Massachusetts were never altered.
`` I considered that your views would be best carried out '', he explained, `` by taking women whose progeny will of course be free & more fully extend the philantrophy of Emancipation.
After an initial rejection, which he attributed to a `` general Excitement against Abolition and Emancipation '', Giffen bribed the right individuals on the jury, and got the permission without further delay.
His efforts toward the abolition of slavery include issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, encouraging the border states to outlaw slavery, and helping push through Congress the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which finally freed all the black slaves nationwide in December 1865.
The ensuing Union victory was among the bloodiest in American history, but it enabled Lincoln to announce that he would issue an Emancipation Proclamation in January.
The Emancipation Proclamation announced in September gained votes for the Republicans in the rural areas of New England and the upper Midwest, but it lost votes in the cities and the lower Midwest.
In that month, Lincoln discussed a draft of the Emancipation Proclamation with his cabinet.
The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on September 22, 1862, and put into effect on January 1, 1863, declared free the slaves in 10 states not then under Union control, with exemptions specified for areas already under Union control in two states.
He commented favorably on colonization in the Emancipation Proclamation, but all attempts at such a massive undertaking failed.
A few days after Emancipation was announced, 13 Republican governors met at the War Governors ' Conference ; they supported the president's Proclamation, but suggested the removal of General George B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army.
Using former slaves in the military was official government policy after the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation.
After implementing the Emancipation Proclamation, which did not apply to every state, Lincoln increased pressure on Congress to outlaw slavery throughout the entire nation with a constitutional amendment.
Days after that battle, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which made ending slavery a war goal.
Lincoln's decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation angered both Peace Democrats (" Copperheads ") and War Democrats, but energized most Republicans.
* 1862 – American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
" Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation applied initially only to states in rebellion ; Johnson rationalized that Tennessee in this regard was a part of the Union, and on that basis requested, and received, an exemption from the Proclamation.
Ever since Catholic Emancipation, members of parliament were required to swear the oath " on the true faith of a Christian.
In 1835, Governor Sligo arrived in Cayman from Jamaica to declare all slaves free in accordance with the Emancipation Act of 1833.
Before presenting " The Emancipation Proclamation " to his Cabinet, Lincoln read to them the latest episode, " Outrage in Utiky ", also known as High-Handed Outrage at Utica.
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