LONG VIEW: NEGRO

Emancipation: 1865

Sighted through the

           Telescope of dreams

                       Looms larger,

                                   So much larger,

                                               So it seems,

                                                           Than truth can be.

But turn the telescope around,

           Look through the larger end—

                       And wonder why

                                   What was so large

                                               Becomes so small

                                                           Again.

                                                           —LANGSTON HUGHES

Emancipation Proclamation takes full effect, slaves are freed