I love it. We should never miss a chance to remind everyone this is the day slaves heard Republicans had freed them from their Democrat masters.

I love it. We should never miss a chance to remind everyone this is the day slaves heard Republicans had freed them from their Democrat masters.

https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=40



The 13th amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the United States, passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, and the House on January 31, 1865. On February 1, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln approved the Joint Resolution of Congress submitting the proposed amendment to the state legislatures. The necessary number of states ratified it by December 6, 1865. The 13th amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "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."

In 1863 President Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring “all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” Nonetheless, the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in the nation. Lincoln recognized that the Emancipation Proclamation would have to be followed by a constitutional amendment in order to guarantee the abolishment of slavery

I worked like a slave !!

I doubt it. I bet you got paid for your work, nobody whipped you, and nobody was gonna cut off your toes if you ran away. And I bet nobody sold your kids as breeding stock either.