William T. Carlton's 1863 painting "Watch Meeting-Dec. 31st 1862-Waiting for the Hour" depicts a perhaps mythologized rendition of New Year's Eve on 1862, in which abolitionists and others waited ...

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The Black American tradition of spending New Year’s Eve in prayer and fellowship dates all the way back to the Civil War. It’s deeply rooted in the long-awaited dawn of freedom for enslaved ...

On Dec. 31, 1862, free and enslaved Black people gathered — some publicly, some quietly — to ring in the new year and await news that the Emancipation Proclamation, signed on Sept. 22, 1862 ...

Although New Year’s Eve is not a religious holiday, ... Museum of African American History and Culture, the night, also known as Freedom’s Eve, occurred on December 31, 1862 where ...