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Part I Slavery and Removal in California and the Far West

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.

From Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God Almighty, Free at Last!

Old Negro Spiritual cited by Martin Luther King in His “I’ve Got a Dream” Speech, Lincoln Square, Washington, on the Centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, August 28, 1963

We realize that whoever sees us, and no matter what we say to defend ourselves, the white people will think of us as dogs. We want our relatives now imprisoned at the Missouri River [Crow Creek] to remain alive. Last summer we left death behind and with no freedom to do what we wanted, we were like dead men.