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Originally Posted by manaboutown
That would be The Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863. June 19, 1865 was merely the day news of it reached some folks in Galveston, Texas.
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Which was basically an Executive Order.
The proclamation ended slavery in the Confederate states, but it remained legal and it continued in two Union states (Delaware and Kentucky) until the 13th Amendment was ratified on December, 6, 1965, almost 2 years later...