Tampa Bay Times

158-year-old record proves Tampa slave trade continued after emancipation

The Tampa Bay Times discovered the document in a Hillsborough County book recording land sales. The entry in the top left corner is a sales receipt for two enslaved teenagers. It was recorded with ...
Tallahassee Democrat

'Mayteenth' in Tallahassee: Emancipation Proclamation read publicly, 159 years later

On the steps of what is now the Knott House Museum, where the Emancipation Proclamation was first read in the state of Florida, it was read again – 159 years later. General Edward McCook first read ...
USA Today

Lincoln abolished slavery in Washington, DC, months before the Emancipation Proclamation. Here's the story behind the act.

Loretta Carter Hanes was researching at a library in her hometown of Washington, D.C., when she came across a piece of local history that surprised her. She learned that in April 1862, President ...
Wall Street Journal

Ken Griffin Pays Record $13.7 Million for Lincoln’s 13th Amendment Ending Slavery

Billionaire Ken Griffin just bought two of the most significant documents ever signed by President Abraham Lincoln, adding to his trove of Americana. Griffin reset the record for any document signed ...
The Washington Post

Recording the Former Slaves' Emancipation

In the late 1860s James Kelley, a man living in Chicot County, Ark., wrote to the Freedmen's Bureau asking for help in finding his children. Like thousands of black families, they had been separated ...