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Watch Night, A Celebration

Uploaded by Sue Massie

When: Sat., Dec. 31, 4-5:30 p.m. 2022

Theatrical readings of individuals involved in the first Watch Night 160 years ago. President Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and others tell the poignant story of that momentous time.
A celebration of Dec. 31, 1862, when enslaved people waited for the Emancipation Proclamation to be signed by President Lincoln and to take effect the next morning, freeing 3.5 million enslaved people in the secessionist Confederate states.

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