WASHINGTON (AP) — District of Columbia leaders and residents are preparing to celebrate a holiday that’s unique to the nation’s capital.
D.C. Emancipation Day commemorates the date in 1862 when President Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the city. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation nine months later.
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