CSPAN3 May 13, 2012
and after that service, if you will, president lincoln requested that he be brought back without his entourage. he would come to the camp and aunted aunt mary would sing for him and during the time that lincoln is writing the emancipation proclamation, he is coming here and praying and be sung to by aunt mary dimes. in that camp, there was suffering. these are refugees. these are people running away and they need assistance. an african-american woman born enslaved in virginia, bought her freedom out in st. louis as she began working as a seamstress. not only bought her freedom, but b...