SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) - When President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, it took nearly two and half years before all enslaved people were made aware of the news.
“My maternal family comes from the Georgia Lowcountry — Savannah and a few of the surrounding Gullah islands. The family story that has been passed down to me is that some of our ancestors came in on ...
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