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The Amherstburg Freedom Museum Celebrates Emancipation Day 2021
On Saturday, August 28th at 4 p.m., the Amherstburg Freedom Museum will host Celebrating Progress: A Celebration of Emancipation Day 2021 on the grounds of the museum. This event recognizes the 187th anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery in Canada in 1834 and the federal recognition of Emancipation Day in Canada.
Join this outdoor event at the Amherstburg Freedom Museum for a chicken dinner and an evening of dancing, featuring the Windsor based band The Black Orchid, you won’t want to miss it! Dancing, silent auction, and fellowship await you. This years celebration is generously sponsored by Arbor Memorial Inc., Joe Meloche Ford, and Amherstburg Chevrolet Buick GMC .
Organizers wish to thank the Detroit Memorial Park Association Inc., and other generous donors for helping make this event possible.
The Amherstburg Freedom Museum is a curated archive that preserves and shares Amherstburg’s stories of the Underground Railroad, and the compassion and solidarity it took to make this network possible. The location of the Museum is key; Amherstburg meant freedom, as the Canadian destination for many Freedom Seekers escaping slavery in the United States. Also included in the museum complex are Nazrey A.M.E. Church – national historic site and stop on the Underground Railroad, and the Taylor Log Cabin – home of George Taylor a formerly enslaved man and his family.
Celebrating Progress: A Celebration of Emancipation Day takes place on Saturday August 28th, 4-8pm doors open at 3:30pm at the Amherstbrug Freedom Museum located at 277 King Street, Amherstbrug.
Tickets are $65 each and may be purchased in advance online. If you have any issues ordering tickets online please contact the museum at 519-736-5433 and someone will be happy to assist you.
