Abolition Day
Abolition Day is held on June 10. French Guiana. This event in the first decade of the month June is annual. 
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The public holiday has been celebrated since 2012. It is also sometimes referred to as Emancipation Day. The historical event dates back to the date of the abolition of slavery in what is now French Guiana in 1848.
On April 27, 1848, the French government announced the abolition of slavery in its colonies and granted citizenship to the emancipated slaves. However, the news took over a month until June 10, 1848 to reach French Guiana, which is why French Guiana celebrates June 10 as Abolition Day.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
Slavery Abolition Day on May 27 (Guadeloupe, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin);
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 on Saint Kitts and Nevis on August 7
Emancipation Day in Grenada on August 7 (on the first monday of august);
Emancipation Day in Anguilla, the Bahamas, British Virgin Islands on August 7 (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);
Abolition of Slavery Day in Mauritius on February 1
Emancipation Day or Día de la Abolición de la Esclavitud on March 22