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ADD THIS TO DI STEPH JONES

Met,
Just a reminder for our black folks that keep bleaching and not appreciating what we went through as black people. Here is a topic I would like you to run however if it doesn’t meet your guidelines I would definately understand. :) I don’t expect much comments but I think the date and a friendly reminder might educate some.
Thanks
Jewel

http://www.americanheritage.com/events/articles/web/20060131-slavery-thirteenth-amendment-abraham-lincoln-frederick-douglass-confederacy-civil-war.shtml

On January 31, 1865, the galleries in the United States House of Representatives brimmed over with expectant reporters and ordinary citizens who crammed the Capitol Building to witness history in the making. That morning the House was scheduled to vote on a constitutional amendment banning slavery—not just in the territories, not just in the Confederacy, but everywhere in the United States.
Congress—indeed, America—had traveled a long road in a short time. Five years earlier, Abraham Lincoln, an obscure former one-term congressman from Illinois, had taken the floor at Cooper Union in New York City to begin a longshot bid for the presidency. Running on what was then regarded as a radical platform to restrict slavery to the places where it already existed while preventing its spread into the Western territories, Lincoln had won the 1860 election after a fiercely contested campaign. His victory provoked the secession of 11 slave states and a war that claimed 620,000 lives.
He, like most members of his Republican party, was at first loath to associate that war with the abolitionist cause. Few Northerners, and virtually no Southerners, could yet …………..

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