3 March 1861: The Emancipation of the Serfs

 

Ilya Repin: Barge Haulers on the Volga (1871)

3 March 1861: Czar Alexander II emmancipates the serfs of Russia

In the 1860s, millions of slaves were emancipated, but really weren't. This was in the Russian Empire and the slaves were mostly fellow ethnic Russians. 

Boris Kustodiev: The Emancipation of the Serfs (1907)

AoSHQ: Morning Report 03.03.30