Comments on: Classic D.C. Moment, An Early Best Of D.C. Entry http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/04/16/classic-dc-moment-an-early-best-of-dc-entry/ 68.3 Square Miles of D.C. News and Opinion Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:05:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Nikki http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/04/16/classic-dc-moment-an-early-best-of-dc-entry/comment-page-1/#comment-128163 Nikki Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:42:17 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/04/16/classic-dc-moment-an-early-best-of-dc-entry/#comment-128163 DC Historical Society had an ad in last weeks paper for their DC Emancipation Day events, thats how I knew about it. Frederick Douglass IV gave a reenactment of the emancipation procolmation down at the Carnagie building down on K Street today. DC Historical Society had an ad in last weeks paper for their DC Emancipation Day events, thats how I knew about it. Frederick Douglass IV gave a reenactment of the emancipation procolmation down at the Carnagie building down on K Street today.

]]> By: Reid http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/04/16/classic-dc-moment-an-early-best-of-dc-entry/comment-page-1/#comment-128137 Reid Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:59:40 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/04/16/classic-dc-moment-an-early-best-of-dc-entry/#comment-128137 You've never heard of Emancipation Day? Every few years it buys DC residents a few extra days to file their taxes. They always make a big deal over how it was the only "compensated" emancipation. Which I always thought was a weird thing to highlight. It's like the slaves weren't being just freed, they were being bought, then freed. Like emancipation was one big act of eminent domain. Or like I should feel bad for all those other slaveholders who weren't paid. You've never heard of Emancipation Day? Every few years it buys DC residents a few extra days to file their taxes.

They always make a big deal over how it was the only "compensated" emancipation. Which I always thought was a weird thing to highlight. It's like the slaves weren't being just freed, they were being bought, then freed. Like emancipation was one big act of eminent domain. Or like I should feel bad for all those other slaveholders who weren't paid.

]]> By: Adams Morgan http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/04/16/classic-dc-moment-an-early-best-of-dc-entry/comment-page-1/#comment-128136 Adams Morgan Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:51:31 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/04/16/classic-dc-moment-an-early-best-of-dc-entry/#comment-128136 President Lincoln freed the slaves in the District of Columbia before writing the Emancipation Proclomation (I think it was at the minimum a full year before that). President Lincoln freed the slaves in the District of Columbia before writing the Emancipation Proclomation (I think it was at the minimum a full year before that).

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