This year marks the century-and-a-half anniversary of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln set the date of freedom for the nation’s 3 million slaves. “As many of us know, slavery did not die when America abolished it in the 1800s,” says Lucia Mann, author of Rented Silence (www.luciamann.com), which explores British Colonial slavery in Sout...
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