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the 13th amendment was ratifed in December of 1865 freeing all slaves in the united states and its' territories

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 was a powerful move that promised freedom for slaves in the Confederacy as soon as the Union armies reached them, and authorized the enlistment of African Americans in the Union Army. The Emancipation Proclamation did not free slaves in the Union-allied slave-holding states that bordered the Confederacy. Since the Confederate States did not recognize the authority of President Lincoln, and the proclamation did not apply in the border states, at first the proclamation freed only slaves who had escaped behind Union lines. Still, the proclamation made the abolition of slavery an official war goal that was implemented as the Union took territory from the Confederacy. According to the Census of 1860, this policy would free nearly four million slaves, or over 12% of the total population of the United States. There still were over 250,000 slaves in Texas. Word did not reach Texas about the collapse of the Confederacy until June 19, 1865. African Americans and others celebrate that day as Juneteenth, the day of freedom, in Texas, Oklahoma and some other states. It commemorates the date when the news finally reached slaves at Galveston, Texas. Legally, the last 40,000 or so slaves were freed in Kentucky[83] by the final ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in December 1865. Slaves still held in New Jersey, Delaware, West Virginia, Maryland, Missouri and Washington, D.C. also became legally free on this date.

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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was adopted on December 6, 1865.

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Enslaved Americans of African descent were freed in various ways over time.

Some were freed via manumission by their owners; others bought their freedom when possible. Other Americans who were enslaved were freed by state laws that set into motion of the abolition of slavery over time. Still others were freed (by law, if not practically) by the Emancipation Proclamation, but only if they were enslaved in Confederate-controlled territories. Those African Americans still enslaved after the Emancipation Proclamation were freed (by law) in 1865 with the enactment of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Perhaps the most consistent and longest means of emancipation of enslaved Americans was by African Americans themselves who won their own freedom by escape or revolt as early as the 1600s (in colonial America).

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The slaves in the Confederate (in rebellion) states were freed as of January 1, 1863 as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation going into effect. The rest were freed as a result of the Thirteenth Amendment - December 1865.
As an aside, the Emancipation Proclamation, proclaimed the freedom of the slaves in the Confederacy, but could not enforce it. It did lead many slaves to flee to the North, however. The Emancipation did nothing about slavery in the Union States that had slavery.
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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 was a powerful move that promised freedom for slaves in the Confederacy as soon as the Union armies reached them, and authorized the enlistment of African Americans in the Union Army. The Emancipation Proclamation did not free slaves in the Union-allied slave-holding states that bordered the Confederacy. Since the Confederate States did not recognize the authority of President Lincoln, and the proclamation did not apply in the border states, at first the proclamation freed only slaves who had escaped behind Union lines. Still, the proclamation made the abolition of slavery an official war goal that was implemented as the Union took territory from the Confederacy. According to the Census of 1860, this policy would free nearly four million slaves, or over 12% of the total population of the United States. There still were over 250,000 slaves in Texas. Word did not reach Texas about the collapse of the Confederacy until June 19, 1865. African Americans and others celebrate that day as Juneteenth, the day of freedom, in Texas, Oklahoma and some other states. It commemorates the date when the news finally reached slaves at Galveston, Texas. Legally, the last 40,000 or so slaves were freed in Kentucky[83] by the final ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in December 1865. Slaves still held in New Jersey, Delaware, West Virginia, Maryland, Missouri and Washington, D.C. also became legally free on this date. [edit]

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(1) Slaves in most of the Confederacy (those areas still in rebellion at the time) were declared free on January 1, 1863, by Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. But the proclamation could only be put into effect gradually, as the Union armies took control of new areas (something the proclamation itself called for). Also, all who managed to flee from any Confederate territory, including those not yet militarily controlled by the Union were to be protected by the Union army (not returned to their former owners). This process was completed when Union armies reached Texas and announced the proclamation there on June 19, 1865 (a date thereafter commemorated as "Juneteenth").

(2) As for slaves in loyal territories of the South (chiefly those border states that had not seceded):

(a) some were freed when he state they resided in passed emancipation laws

(b) the remainder were freed (and the freedom of ALL was made legally secure) by the 13th amendment, which was proposed by Congress in January 1865 and put into effect once it was ratified by the required 3/4 of the states - a number reached in December 1865.

(3) One other group of southern slaves - those in Washington D.C. - were actually the first freed, beginning in April 1862, after Congress passed and Lincoln signed legislation to do so. (Note that the capital district was the only area in which the federal government had authority to pass such a law. This is why all other slaves had to be freed by the three means mentioned above: state laws, a declaration of the President under his war powers, an amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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When the 14th amendment was passed during reconstruction.

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With the passage into law of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution December 6, 1865 .

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December 18, 1865.

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