Artifact
Ratification of the 13th Amendment, 1865
This issue of The New-York Times — the newspaper eventually dropped the hyphen in its name — reports the ratification of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States.
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Artifact Date
December 19, 1865
Topic(s)
- Civil Rights
- Civil War
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'The New-York Times,' Dec. 19, 1865
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