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D.C Emancipation Day: The Reading of the Names of the First Freed

African American Civil War Memorial Vermont Ave. NW, Washington, DC, United States

April 17, 2023, DC Emancipation Day weekend activities will culminate with the Reading of the Names of the First Freed at the African American Civil War Memorial on Vermont Ave. NW Washington, D. C. At the start of the Civil War in 1861 there were 3.9 million enslaved blacks held in captivity in the United […]