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Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States. Some mistake Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation for the official abolishment of slavery, however, that only abolished slavery in the Confederate States of America (CSA). See the related links section below.
Slavery ended throughout the United States in December, 1865 with the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. Slavery ended earlier in many states. The Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 caused slaves to be freed wherever Union troops advanced in the south. However, slavery persisted in the border states (Delaware, for example) until the end of 1865. Yes the Border states were a touchy place to be heavy handed. It could have sent Kentucky, Missouri or Maryland to the Confederacy.
It stops slavery throughout the United States
Ben Franklin signed it in 1789. It stated that there would be no slavery throughout the 13 colonies of the Untied States of America (ANTI-SLAVERY). A treatise is a treaty.
States Rights and slavery (human rights) are two causes.