Government of the District of Columbia DC Emancipation webpage
http://www.os.dc.gov/os/cwp/view,a,1207,q,608954.asp
 
U.S. National Archives Online Exhibit Hall
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/dc_emancipation_act/
 
U.S. Library of Congress (LOC) Today in History-April 16, 1862, Abolition in the District of Columbia
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/apr16.html
 
Historical Overview of the District of Columbia's Emancipation Day
by C.R. Gibbs, Historian of the African Diaspora/ Independent Researcher
http://mysite.verizon.net/peter.hanes/documents/Historical_Overview_DCEmancipationDay.pdf
 
Black Freedom Days - An Historical Fact Sheet on Key Events in the Abolition of Slavery Worldwide, by C.R. Gibbs
Historical_Factsheet_Abolition_of_SlaveryWorldwide
 
Historical Overview of International Emancipation Day (August 1, 1834) by Smithsonian Anacostia Museum
 
[The British Imperial Slavery Abolition Act 1833 came into force August 1, 1834 and abolished slavery throughout the British Empire and its colonies. The historic action fueled abolition movements worldwide and led to slavery's end in Europe, the Caribbean colonies, the U.S., and South America.]
Historical_Overview_InternationalEmancipationDay.pdf
 
Black, Copper, & Bright: The District of Columbia's Black Civil War Regiment (FREE Online Preview Video-Run time: 13 minutes)
A Three Dimensional Production documentary preview based on the book by
Historian C.R. Gibbs, on Washington, DC's 1st Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops (USCT)
The regiment was comprised of Blacks from the Eastern Seaboard States, Canada, and the Caribbean.
 
A Three Dimensional Publishing Production
Producer: Dexter Akinsheye
Writer: C.R. Gibbs
Email: crgibbs@newlineartist.com
phone: 202-544-3168
Website: http://www.3dpublishing.com
Preview Video: http://www.3dpublishing.com/bcb/film.htm
 
Is based on the first book ever published on the First Regiment, USCT, organized in Washington, DC in the spring of 1863. This regiment fought its way across a dozen bloody battlefields in Virginia and North Carolina during the American Civil War. Men of "African Descent" flocked to its ranks from the Eastern Seaboard States, Canada and the Caribbean. The men, fugitive enslaved and free blacks, assembled and trained against a tumultuous backdrop of political infighting, ambitious generals, and racism so naked and violent that the soldiers were sent to an island in the middle of the Potomac River to escape attacks by pro-Confederate ruffians in the nation's capital, the heart of the Union. At the end of the war, the regiment made history by being the first African American troops to be received by the President of the United States at the White House during a District of Columbia Emancipation Day Parade.