The Rev. Prince Raney Rivers, senior pastor of Union Baptist Church in Durham, N.C., urges those attending the annual Emancipation Proclamation Day service at Fifth Baptist Church to finish the work begun with abolition.
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Absence marks Emancipation Proclamation Day service
Jan. 1 marks one of the greatest days in American history — the day when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation to abolish slavery amid the raging Civil War.
