"Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you can. Just so," he added, "shall your descendants be." ~Genesis 15:5 Roughly 3,800 years after Abram (who was later renamed Abraham), was given a tremendous promise by God, another Abraham, our 16th President of the United States, kept his promise to end slavery in all Confederate-held territory. On the new year of January 1, 1863, Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all enslaved people in the Confederacy. It's