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To place slave emancipation on a secure constitutional footing, Congress proposed on January 31, 1865, to abolish slavery by constitutional amendment. Ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment ...

The race was too early to call as of Wednesday afternoon, but current vote tallies show the amendment losing. “Neither ...

Yet the 1865 ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment — the provision in the US Constitution abolishing slavery — contained a ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - The United States abolished slavery except as a punishment of a crime in 1865 with the ratification ...