Mississippi ratified the 13th amendment, which banned slavery, in 1995, 130 years after it was originally ratified. Kentucky and Delaware ratified it in 1976 and 1901, respectively. The Emancipation Proclamation only abolished slavery in Confederate states. Some have tried to use the 13th amendment to avoid school-mandated community service, but courts ruled it did not violate the amendment.
Mississippi was the last state to ratify the 13th amendment, which bans slavery in the United States, and its legislature only voted to do so in 1995, 130 years after it was originally ratified. He also didn’t officially notify the Federal Register Office that he voted to ratify the amendment until 2013, meaning it wasn’t formally in effect until then. The state was one of three to ratify the amendment in the early 20th century, with the others being Kentucky and Delaware, ratifying it in 1976 and 1901, respectively.
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When the 13th amendment was first proposed in 1865, 27 states accepted it and four rejected it: Mississippi, Kentucky, Delaware and New Jersey. The other states that have not ratified it either had not yet been created or ratified it within two years.
Many people mistakenly believe that the Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery in the United States, but it actually only abolished slavery in the Confederate states. Many slaves continued to be held in the northern and western states until the end of the Civil War.
Several people have tried to use the 13th amendment to not perform school-mandated community service. In Steirer v. Bethlehem School District, Herndon v. Chapel Hill and Immediate v. Rye Neck School District, the courts ruled that community service could not be construed as slavery, so the plaintiffs could not walk out on the grounds that it violated the 13th Amendment.
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