Emancipation Celebration
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This newspaper woodcut shows an 1863 emancipation day celebration at Port Royal, South Carolina. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
This file appears in: 8th of August
8th of August
Historical Marker #1957 in Paducah commemorates the eighth day of August. African Americans in Paducah have traditionally observed this day in celebration of their ancestors' emancipation from slavery.
Even before the guns fell silent at the…