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Emancipation Day

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On April 16, 1862 (154 years ago tomorrow) President Abraham Lincoln signed a law that Congressman Abraham Lincoln had proposed 13 years earlier.
The bill abolished slavery in the District of Columbia, paying the owners for the value of their emancipated slaves. 

That mode of emancipation would have been very expensive on a national scale, but it would have been cheaper than the Civil War, not to mention bloodless.

Today is a legal holiday in D.C., which is why we all get until Monday to file our tax returns.

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