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Florida Emancipation Day
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About this event
The actual date was May 20, 1865, two years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was written. Here is an article from the Museum of FL History:
https://www.museumoffloridahistory.com/visit/knott-house-museum/20th-of-may-commemoration/history/
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