With Georgia’s ratification of the 13th Amendment on this day in 1865, slavery was finally declared incompatible with the ideals of the United States Constitution, and was prohibited.

Texas, the site of Juneteenth, did not formally ratify the 13th Amendment until February 1870. Mississippi only ratified the 13th Amendment in March 1991, certifying it in February 2013.

On Dec. 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. This is the date that the struggle to end slavery repositioned itself, by virtue of the 13th Amendment, to the prison systems ...

It must have been completed between the passage of the 13th Amendment on January 31, 1865, and his assassination on April 15, 1865, minus the two weeks Lincoln went to Richmond immediately after ...

But in Delaware and Kentucky, slavery continued to be legal until the 13th amendment to the United States constitution took effect six months later, on Dec. 15, 1865.