National Freedom Day is an observance day in the United States that respects the signing of a resolution that proposed the 13th amendment of the nation’s constitution on February 1, 1865. Abraham Lincoln, who was the president at the time, signed the resolution to outlaw slavery. National Freedom Day is annually observed on February 1.

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