fulfillment of emancipation, the proclamation that all people held us slaves shall hence forth be forever free. it returned to them what was taken from them, the freedom that was theirs by birth and by right, autonomy over their own body and their own life, the promise of liberty and independence and in doing so our nation defined freedom in opposition to slavery of black people in america. it was a step towards making real the ideals set forth at the founding of our nation, that we re all entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and so through the time of emancipation we have been fighting to security promise of liberty for all americans, a fight that laid the foundation for all the fights that followed, including the
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