BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Emancipation Day (2017) -- Fireworks

DC -- Emancipation Day (2017) -- Fireworks:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. FWORK_170408_122.JPG: Saturday was the annual DC Emancipation Day celebration. The event commemorates Abraham Lincoln's 1862 signing of the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act which ended slavery in the District. The fireworks which end the event are in sight of the newly-opened Trump Hotel and the Capitol down the street. Calls for states rights and hands-off rapacious business interests were used as justifications for preserving "the peculiar institution" of slavery back then. Thank goodness no one holds those oppressive attitudes today.
Wikipedia Description: Emancipation Day
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Emancipation Day is celebrated in many former British colonies in the Caribbean and areas of the United States on various dates in observance of the emancipation of slaves of African descent. It is also observed in other areas in regard to the abolition of serfdom or other forms of servitude. ...

District of Columbia

The District of Columbia celebrates April 16 as Emancipation Day. On that day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act (an act of Compensated emancipation) for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia. The Act freed about 3,100 slaves in the District of Columbia nine months before President Lincoln issued his broader Emancipation Proclamation. The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act represents the only example of compensation by the federal government to former owners of emancipated slaves.

On January 4, 2005, Mayor Anthony A. Williams signed legislation making Emancipation Day an official public holiday in the District. Although Emancipation Day occurs on April 16, by law when April 16 falls during a weekend, Emancipation Day is observed on the nearest weekday. This affects the Internal Revenue Service's due date for tax returns, which traditionally must be submitted by April 15, but as the federal government observes the holiday causes it and all state tax deadlines to be moved to the next business day if Emancipation Day falls that year on April 15. Each year, activities will be held during the public holiday including the traditional Emancipation Day parade celebrating the freedom of enslaved persons in the District of Columbia. The Emancipation Day celebration was held yearly from 1866 to 1901.
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