First Emancipation Decree
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Day
1
Month
July
Year
1898
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Public Domain
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The first emancipation proclamatior is said to be on the gravestone at Concord of John Jack, a native of África, who died in 1773, aged 60. It begins: "God wills us free; man wills us slaves. I will as God wills. God's will be done. Though born in a land of slavery, he was born free. Though he lived in a land of liberty, he lived a slave, till 5y his honest though stolen labor ha acquired the source of slavery which gave him his freedom." The rest of the epitaph, which must have been wrltten by a forerunner of Wendell Phillips, is equally biting.
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