GLACE BAY ー A historic first for Cape Breton. The island’s very first Emancipation Day celebration, marking the British Empire’s Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, was held in Glace Bay on Thursday. Many ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - In Florida, Emancipation Day is traditionally celebrated on May 20. On that day in 1865, the Emancipation Proclamation was read on the steps of the Knott House near ...