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Emancipation Day in Grenada

Name: Emancipation Day in Grenada
Start: 2024-08-05T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-08-05
Location: Grenada

Emancipation Day in Grenada is held on August 5. On the first monday of august. This event in the first decade of the month August is annual.

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Emancipation Day is a public holiday celebrating the abolition of slavery. Although officially acknowledged worldwide as August 1st, in Grenada Emancipation Day is celebrated on the first Monday of August with Cultural activities. Banks and most shops are closed.

That date, in 1834, marked the end of slavery in the British Empire, when the 1833 Abolition of Slavery Act came into force. In many of Britain's former colonies in the Caribbean, as well as Canada, Aug. 1 is still celebrated as Emancipation Day.

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Emancipation Day in Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica on August 1 (Celebration of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 which ended the slavery in the British Empire, generally celebrated as a part of Carnival, as the Caribbean Carnival takes place at this time);

Emancipation Day in Anguilla, the Bahamas, British Virgin Islands on August 5 (celebrated on the first Monday of August. Celebration of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 which ended the slavery in the British Empire, generally celebrated as a part of Carnival, as the Caribbean Carnival takes place at this time);