About 1830, there developed a strong movement in favor of emancipation. At Jonesborough was established the first abolition newspaper ever published in America. But this emancipation sentiment had entirely disappeared by 1860. Even in East Tennessee, the most extreme opponents of secession were firm believers in slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, did not include Tennessee within its provisions. Slavery, therefore continued to exist as a legal institution until abolished by an amendment to the State constitution. This amendment, as we have seen, was framed by the Radical Convention of 1865. In April, of the same year, Gov. Brownlow laid before the Legislature a joint resolution of Congress containing the proposed Thirteenth Amendment. It was promptly ratified. In his initial message, Gov. Brownlow discussed, at considerable length, the race problem. He sought to impress upon the Legislature, “that some legislation was necessary for the protection, government, and control of the emancipated slave.” The Legislature did not enter upon this work immediately. It was not till May 11, 1866, that a bill was passed entitled, “An act to define the term, ‘A Person of Color,’ and to declare the rights of such persons.” The first section of this act provided that under the term “Person of Color” should be included all “negroes, mulatoes, meztigsoes, and their descendants having African blood.” The second section declared: “That persons of color have the right to make and enforce contracts, to sue and be sued, to be parties and give evidence, and have full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and estate, and shall not be subject to any other or different punishment, pains, or penalty for the commission of any act or offence than such as are prescribed for white persons committing like acts or offences.” By the fifth section, slave marriages were legalized. The last section declared that nothing in the act should be so construed as to admit persons of color to serve on the jury, or to require the education of colored and white children in the same school.