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The border states of Maryland (November 1864) [16] and Missouri (January 1865), [17] and the Union-occupied Confederate state, Tennessee (January 1865), [18] all abolished slavery prior to the end of the Civil War, as did the new state of West Virginia (February 1865), [19] which had separated from Virginia in 1863 over the issue of slavery.
The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.The amendment was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House of Representatives on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the required 27 of the then 36 states on December 6, 1865, and proclaimed on December 18.
Slavery in Missouri ended on January 11, 1865, when a state convention approved an ordinance abolishing slavery by a vote of 60-4, [135] and later the same day, Governor Thomas C. Fletcher followed up with his own "Proclamation of Freedom." [136]
Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when slavery finally ended in the United States, two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Although this event commemorates the end of slavery, emancipation for the remaining enslaved in two Union border states, Delaware and Kentucky, would not come until December 6, 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified; [44] [c] [e] furthermore, thousands of black slaves were not freed until after the Reconstruction Treaties of late 1866 ...
Juneteenth is marked in the United States each year on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in 1865 - this year awareness is spreading further around the globe.
But the abrasion was no mere incident; it was the policy of emancipation. Beginning in mid-1863 Lincoln intensified the pressure on all the slave states, and in early 1864 the policy began to pay off. Between January 1864 and January 1865, three slave states abolished slavery, all under intense pressure from the federal government.
Slavery abolished. [144] 1864: Congress Poland: Serfdom abolished. [145] 1865 United States: Slavery abolished, except as punishment for crime, by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. It frees all remaining slaves, about 40,000, in the border slave states that did not secede. [146]