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 of the war. in fact, what lincoln called for in frederick douglass in august 1864, he says, you know, i am disapp