The America-free dislaves in 1863 through the Man's Pays and Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln, but gave the slaves no land or nothing in reality, and as a matter of fact, to get started on. At the same time, America was giving away millions of acres of land in the West and the Midwest, which meant that there was a willingness to give the white peasants from Europe an economic base. And yet it refused to give its black peasants from Africa who came here involuntarily in chains and had worked free for 244 years in a kind of economic base. And so emancipation for the Negro was really freedom to hunger, it was freedom to the winds and rains of heaven. It was freedom without food to eat a land to cultivate and therefore it was freedom and famine at the same time.