Freedom Day: How Florida celebrates Emancipation Day
General Edward McCook read the Emancipation Proclamation at the Knott House in Tallahassee, freeing slaves in Florida, on May 20, 1865.
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General Edward McCook read the Emancipation Proclamation at the Knott House in Tallahassee, freeing slaves in Florida, on May 20, 1865.
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Daytona Beach's Juneteenth celebration provided a day full of fun and a chance to learn about the painful history of slavery in the United States.
The event included a re-enactment of the first public reading of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation on the very spot it took place 158 years ago.
Emancipation came a month earlier than Juneteenth for Civil War-era Black Floridians.