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Emancipation Grounds
Slavery
1890
Formerly enslaved African Americans, only a few years out of bondage, raised funds, purchased land, and created emancipation parks around the country. From Emancipation Park in Houston, Texas, to the Emancipation Grounds in Purcellville, Virginia, Black Americans marked their freedom on the landscape of the nation they helped to bring into being.
