The United States Virgin Islands celebrates Emancipation Day, an official holiday, on July 3. It commemorates the abolition of slavery by Danish Governor Peter von Scholten on July 3, 1848.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Day#U.S._Virgin_Islands
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