Assertion: lawn's population | /r/HasProperty | majority african-american
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text: In a separate vote, they unanimously created a new day of celebration called Liberation and Freedom Day, to be celebrated on March 3, the day in 1865 when Gen. Philip Sheridan's troops rolled through town and found a population that was majority African-American - and although emancipation for most of them didn't occur on that day, it was the opening salvo for a lot of Charlottesvillians’ freedom.[full citation needed]