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Events on Wednesday 6 December 1865 1
1865Thirteenth Amendment ratifiedSlavery abolished throughout the United StatesThe Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, formally abolishing slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime. It followed the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the Civil War, extending abolition nationwide.