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 ...

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

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.