The rare document could fetch $8 million.

Thursday, June 19, 2025, marks the annual federal holiday of Juneteenth. The holiday commemorates the end of slavery in the ...

The Thirteenth Amendment (estimated at $8–12 million) and the Emancipation Proclamation (estimated at $3–5 million) are both ...

An Abraham Lincoln–signed copy of the 13th Amendment, as well as a copy of the Emacipation Proclamation, are heading to ...

Did you know Tennessee has two holidays celebrating Emancipation from slavery? Juneteenth, the federal holiday, and August 8.

After the Civil War, the 13th Amendment ended slavery. It also created an immediate problem for the Republican Party, then the antislavery party of the North. Before the war, the Constitution had ...

There are 11 Civil War veterans buried in the Anti-slavery Friends Cemetery at Asa Bales Park in Westfield. On June 21 at 10 ...

For more than 150 years, June 19 has been a day to celebrate the end of slavery in the United States. Communities across the ...

While many across the country recognize Juneteenth as the end to the institution of slavery in America in 1865, some tribal ...