Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that predated President ...

DC was only part of the U.S. to pay off slave owners for freeing enslaves persons they held.

President Abraham Lincoln signed the D.C. Compensated ... The move came nine months before the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. In 2005, the D.C. Council officially designated the day as ...