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Welcome to Emancipation Day in Trinidad

Event Highlights

EMANCIPATION DAY IN TRINIDAD, 2017

One hundred and fifty one years later, on 1 August 1985 the government of Trinidad and Tobago declared Emancipation Day a national holiday to commemorate the abolition of slavery. This country became the first country in the world to declare a national holiday to commemorate the abolition of slavery.

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