We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass ...

The summer air in Rochester, New York, hung thick with heat and celebration. It was July 5, 1852, a day after cannons had ...

"When you are an undocumented immigrant, celebrating the Fourth of July is to resist being defined by fear and panic." ...

A rare broadside of the "Declaration of Independence, July 1776, on view at Seth Kaller Inc., Historic Documents & Legacy ...

Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well ...

On this 176th anniversary of the emancipation of all the enslaved people in the Virgin Islands, The Daily News is reprinting an excerpt of the speech given by ...

For nearly two centuries, the Danish West Indies were entangled in the brutal Atlantic Slave Trade, which saw the forced ...

A community group is set to bring together a series of speakers to discuss the subject of emancipation this month. Community ...

Billionaire Ken Griffin just broke the auction sales record for any document signed by President Abraham Lincoln. The Citadel ...

Griffin paid a record $13.7M for the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation. Both documents were ...

Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...

Did you know Tennessee has two holidays celebrating Emancipation from slavery? Juneteenth, the federal holiday, and August 8.