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Ex-Slave's Dream Builds White Church; Freed Woman Contributed First Thousand Dollars toward Exclusive Detroit Church
Elizabeth Forth Denison, who died at age 114, contributed her savings to the St. James Episcopal Church of Gross Isle.
The Colored People of Detroit-the President's Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation and its reception in Detroit.
Then Freedom Came: Detroit and the Emancipation Proclamation
Describes Detroit reaction to issuance of Proclamation.
Story of Emancipation
"Passage of thirteenth amendment with sketches of the Thirty-eighth Congress."