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What??? Slavery was still legal in the North until the 13th amendment.

• bobmcnamara 2y ago
  proc95 wasn't limited to the south.
  • dcrazy 2y ago
    Yes it was. > That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, 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. Slavery was legal in the border states until passage of the 13th Amendment.
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  • ImJamal 2y ago
    It exempted some of the states that remained in the North. Delaware is an example of a Union state that had slavery until the 13th amendment.