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Wash., D.C. Slave Emancipation and Reparations

  • Apr 16, 1862
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On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia. Passage of this act came

9 months before President Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation. The act brought to conclusion decades of agitation

aimed at ending what antislavery advocates called "the national shame" of slavery in the nation's capital.

The law provided for immediate emancipation, compensation of up to $300 for each slave to loyal Unionist masters, voluntary

colonization of former slaves to colonies outside the United States, and payments of up to $100 to each person choosing

emigration. Over the next 9 months, the federal government paid almost $1 million for the freedom of approximately 3,100

former slaves.

The District of Columbia Emancipation Act is the only example of compensated emancipation in the United States. Though its

three-way approach of immediate emancipation, compensation, and colonization did not serve as a model for the future, it was

an early signal of slavery's death. Emancipation was greeted with great jubilation by the District's African-American community.

For many years afterward, black Washingtonians celebrated Emancipation Day on April 16 with parades and festivals

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