The Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment

October 27, 20261 min readBy PinGallery

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, declaring enslaved people in Confederate states to be free.

The 13th Amendment, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery throughout the United States.

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