talks about a celebration of and thousands of former slaves and over the course of all the speeches higginson of serves this in during a break a woman's voice starts singing "my country tis of thee", a black woman for the first time she had a country. that is what the "emancipation proclamation" that to her and thousands of others former slaves january 1st, 1863, a south carolina. >> thank you. >> another approach is there are many different stories and what jim said is right in the area where the union army would occupy the sea islands. many parts of the confederacy the union army did not get to the very end of the of war, a texas, they did not get there at all. not until june the union commander announced slavery was over there had not been a single battle or anything. . . emancipation is a process. it does not just happen on january 1st, 1863. not only political emancipation but even the personal emancipation of people feeling they were free. >> people were never within reach of the union arm y, never. so i think it's how we combine these into the same story that i think is true -- >> some

during the course of other speeches and so on, higginson during a break in this, a quivering woman's voice starts singing my country to 50, it bought one in. for the first time is taken passaic, she had a country. i was at the emancipation proclamation meant to her into the thousands of other former slaves who were in the audience they are on january 1st in 1863 in south carolina. >> and i decide something? i'm going to take the ed ayers up her cheer and that there were many different stories and what jim just said is completely right in an area where the union army was occupying sea islands. many parts of the confederacy with the union army didn't get until the end of the ward and i was talking before about texas they didn't get there at all. that's why after the war was over at the union commander came into texas and announced slavery is over because there had been a single battle or anything in texas. there were many points of the confederacy were slaves get to know about the emancipation proclamation, but it doesn't actually had the practical effect on them until towards the end