Eleven of the then required thirteen states ratified the amendment and, for a while, it was mistakenly listed as “The Thirteenth Amendment” in the United States Statutes at Large, prompting an ...

Ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, including approval by reconstructed governments in the former Confederate states, was completed on December 6, 1865. The text of the Thirteenth Amendment ...

On December 6, 1865, exactly one year after his last address to Congress, Georgia became the 27th state to ratify the 13th Amendment, raising the total to the necessary three-quarters of the states.