Georgia became the 27th state to ratify the 13th Amendment, raising the total to the necessary three-quarters of the states. Ratification was officially certified on December 18. This December is ...
“The 13th Amendment is the amendment that is celebrated for having abolished slavery. However, what most people don’t know is ...
Yet the 1865 ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment — the provision in the US Constitution abolishing slavery — contained a ...