The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified on December 18, 1865. First proposed in December of 1863, during the Civil War and months after President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, the amendment to forever abolish slavery passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, and the House on January 31, 1865. Before the amendment could […]

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