Amendment that abolished slavery

Answer 1

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 was a powerful move that promised freedom for slaves in the Confederacy as soon as the Union armies reached them, and authorized the enlistment of African Americans in the Union Army. The Emancipation Proclamation did not free slaves in the Union-allied slave-holding states that bordered the Confederacy. Since the Confederate States did not recognize the authority of President Lincoln, and the proclamation did not apply in the border states, at first the proclamation freed only slaves who had escaped behind Union lines. Still, the proclamation made the abolition of slavery an official war goal that was implemented as the Union took territory from the Confederacy. According to the Census of 1860, this policy would free nearly four million slaves, or over 12% of the total population of the United States. There still were over 250,000 slaves in Texas. Word did not reach Texas about the collapse of the Confederacy until June 19, 1865. African Americans and others celebrate that day as Juneteenth, the day of freedom, in Texas, Oklahoma and some other states. It commemorates the date when the news finally reached slaves at Galveston, Texas. Legally, the last 40,000 or so slaves were freed in Kentucky[83] by the final ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in December 1865. Slaves still held in New Jersey, Delaware, West Virginia, Maryland, Missouri and Washington, D.C. also became legally free on this date.

Answer 2

Has slavery really ended?

It depends on the person you ask. The true definition of slavery is:

"Slavery : (noun)
1: the state of being under the control of another person [syn: bondage, thrall, thralldom, thraldom]
2: the practice of owning slaves [syn: slave holding]
3: work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay"

Slavery is the owning of another human being. I say yes there is still slavery in the world. There shouldn't be in my opinion. But there will always be a person who thinks its reasonable to hold another human without another thought.
So to answer this question.
Yes. There (in my opinion) will always be in this world.

Answer 3

The United States of America abolished slavery on January 31, 1865. This is written in the 13th amendment of the US.

Answer 4

Thirteen