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Juneteenth celebrates just one of our 20 emancipation days - and the history of how emancipated people were kept unfree needs to be remembered, too
most notably the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln two years earlier on Jan. 1, 1863. As I explore in my book "Black Ghost of Empire," between the 1780s and 1930s ...
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A slave experience of being sold south
This selection is taken from a book entitled My Life in the South ... in South Carolina until he was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation in 1864. He then went on to become a minister of ...
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About the Film
with Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. Based on Douglas A. Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, the film illuminates how in the years following the Civil War, insidious new ...