Yesterday was the anniversary of a very important day:
The Emancipation Proclamation stated:
"I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief ...
do, on the FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three ... publicly proclaim ... that ... persons held as slaves ... are, and henceforward shall be, free ...
And upon this act ... I invoke ... the gracious favor of Almighty God."
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