*The seventh and final day of Kwanzaa, “Imani” (faith), is observed.
*1804:
Jean Jacques Dessalines proclaimed independence of Haiti.
*1808:
International Slave Trade was abolished.
*1831:
First issue of the Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper, was published by William
Lloyd Garrison.
*1863:
President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation; freed all
slaves in slave states.
*1916:
First issue of
the Journal of Negro History was published by Carter G. Woodson.
*1997:
Kofi Annan of Ghana named first Black secretary of United Nations.
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