Today marks the day when slavery was officially abolished in the United States.
President Lincoln was concerned that the Emancipation Proclamation would be seen as a temporary war measure and so the amendment was a means of guaranteeing the permanent abolition of slavery.
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
The US has been, is, and can be capable of achieving great things in the name of freedom, but when it gets it wrong...
Today we should celebrate!
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