BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18742724 SEQUENCE:18849282 CREATED:20130905T040600Z DESCRIPTION:Enslavement of people of African ancestry throughout the State of California remains an open secret. The 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation is a major milestone in the American mosaic. “Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker’s Tales of Slavery and Power” and the anniversary of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation begins at 11:30 a.m. on Sept. 22, 2013. On this historic date, the Emancipation Proclamation will be read aloud at noon as the Crocker attempts to set a world record for the largest-ever group reading of the groundbreaking document. Then head inside to check out Kara Walker’s thought-provoking and explosive narrative artwork—described by the artist as “nightmarish fictions”—and revel in her arresting intersection of race, gender and sexuality.\n\n\nPreliminary Emancipation Proclamation\n\nBy the President of the United States of America a Proclamation.\n\nPresident Abraham Lincoln I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States, and each of the states, and the people thereof, in which states that relation is, or may be suspended, or disturbed.\n\nThat it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all slave-states, so called, the people whereof may not then be in rebellion against the United States, and which states, may then have voluntarily adopted, or thereafter may voluntarily adopt, immediate, or gradual abolishment of slavery within their respective limits; and that the effort to colonize persons of African descent, with their consent, upon this continent, or elsewhere, with the previously obtained consent of the Governments existing there, will be continued.\n\nhat 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, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.\n\nThat the executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States, and parts of states, if any, in which the people thereof respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any state, or the people thereof shall, on that day be, in good faith represented in the Congress of the United states, by members chosen thereto, at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such state shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such state and the people thereof, are not then in rebellion against the United States.\n\nThat attention is hereby called to an act of Congress entitled “An act to make an additional Article of War” approved March 13, 1862, and which act is in the words and figure following:\n\nBe it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter the following shall be promulgated as an additional article of war for the government of the army of the United States, and shall be obeyed and observed as such:\n\nArticle - All officers or persons in the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service of labor, who may have escaped from any persons to whom such service or labor is claimed to be due, and any officer who shall be found guilty by a court-martial of violating this article shall be dismissed from the service.\n\nSec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. \n\nAlso to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled “An Act to suppress Insurrection, to punish Treason and Rebellion, to seize and confiscate property of rebels, and for other purposes,” approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following:\n\nSec. 9. And be it further enacted, That all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the government of the United States or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the lines of the army; and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them and coming under the control of the government of the United States; and all slaves of such persons found on (or) being within any place occupied by rebel forces and afterwards occupied by the forces of the United States, shall be deemed captives of war, and shall be forever free of their servitude and not again held as slaves. \n\nSec. 10. And be it further enacted, That no slave escaping into any State, Territory, or the district of Columbia, from any other State, shall be delivered up, or in any way impeded or hindered of his liberty, except for crime, or some offence against the laws, unless the person claiming said fugitive shall first make oath that the person to whom the labor or service of such fugitive is alleged to be due is his lawful owner, and has not borne arms against the United states in the present rebellion, nor in any way given aid and comfort thereto; and no person engaged in the military or naval service of the United states shall, under any pretense whatever, assume to decide on the validity of the claim of any person to the service or labor of any other person, or surrender up any such person to the claimant, on pain of being dismissed from the service.\n\nAnd I do hereby enjoin upon all person engaged in the military and naval service of the United States to observe, obey, and enforce, within their respective spheres of service, the act, and sections above recited.\n\nAnd the executive will in due time recommend that all citizens of the United States who shall have remained loyal thereto throughout the rebellion, shall upon the restoration of the constitutional relation between the United States, and their respective states, and people, if that relation shall have been suspended or disturbed) be compensated for all losses by acts of the United States, including the loss of slaves.\n\nIn witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.\n\nDone at the City of Washington, this twenty second day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty two, and of the Independence of the United states, the eighty seventh.\n\n\nAbraham Lincoln.\n\nBy the President:\nWilliam H. Seward, Secretary of State.\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/09/04/18742724.php SUMMARY:Reading of the Emancipation Proclaimation LOCATION:Crocker Art Museum ~ \n\n\n URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/09/04/18742724.php DTSTART:20130922T183000Z DTEND:20130922T193000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR