Emancipation Day Florida. May 20, 1865. Emancipation was proclaimed in Tallahassee on May 20, 1865, 11 days after the end of the Civil War, and two years after the Proclamation first issued by President Abraham Lincoln freed those enslaved in Southern states... reenactment in my neighborhood #historicgeorgetown #cityofsanford #floridahistory #floridaemancipationday #may201865 #southernhistory (at Historic Hopper Academy) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd1CT3jLmeM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=










