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   It happened in Charleston, South Carolina, in the first spring of emancipation. On May 1, 1865, ten thousand Black men, women, and children gathered at the old Washington Race Course, a once-opulent symbol of antebellum wealth that the Confederacy had turned into a prison camp for Union soldiers.
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   Image: April 1865 photo of the graves of Union soldiers buried at the race course-turned-Confederate-prison where historians believe the first Memorial Day took place. Library of Congress.