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The Fourteenth Amendment
14th amendment
Gives citizenship rights to former slaves.
13TH amendmentThe 13th amendment FREED the slaves, the 14th amendment made former slaves US Citizens. So the correct answer would have to be 14th amendment (passed in 1866, ratified in 1868)
former slaves became free people after the Civil War. (13 amendment)
The 13th amendment to the United States Constitution freed the slaves.
thirteenth amendment
13th
It freed the slaves from bondage.
The 13th amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery in the United States and its territories.
Legally, but not actually.
The law that freed the slaves in the United States was the Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It declared that all slaves in Confederate territory were to be freed.