New Year Declaration
The Uprising Proclamation of 2022
Reimagining Black liberation 159 years later
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5 min readJan 1, 2022
“That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then…