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re: Actress Ellen Page: "I am gay"[W:1222]
So since there were slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation it obviously wasn't outlawed. Proclaiming something doesn't make anything illegal, law does.
Sorry IMO if they are free that efeectively outlaws it.
So since there were slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation it obviously wasn't outlawed. Proclaiming something doesn't make anything illegal, law does.
The thirteenth amendment, abolishing slavery, was passed by the Senate in April 1864, and by the House of Representatives in January 1865.[108] The amendment did not take effect until it was ratified by three fourths of the states, which occurred on December 6, 1865, when Georgia ratified it. On that date, all remaining slaves became officially free