Jamaica Emancipation Day 2025. In jamaica, emancipation day comes on 1 august, the day in 1834 when the british parliament passed the bill to abolish slavery in all british colonies. Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates.
Still, as of today, there seems to be no move by the government to suspend emancipation day celebrations or merge both holidays. Emancipation day, august 1, was officially introduced as a public holiday in jamaica in 1893, but it was discontinued in 1962, when the island gained independence from the british, and.