In what year did slavery end in the United States?

Answer 1

First, a note -- though the Emancipation Proclamation was NOT the instrument through which slavery was abolished in the United States, this act DID free slaves! While it is true that slaves in rebel territory did not gain their freedom the instant it was proclaimed (in final form on January 1, 1863). but it DID declare that all those slaves who had run away from their masters were free (and could rest assured the Union would NOT return them to slavery). And from then to the end of the war, as soon as Union forces were able to take charge of an area, its slaves were also freed.

Also the proclamation DID open the way for later gains. Along with the practice of allowing blacks to fight (and gain much respect doing so) and Lincoln's other political efforts, it helped convince border states to end slavery (as Lincoln had long urged them to do voluntarily), and finally to passage of the 13th amendment.

And the complaint that the Emancipation Proclamation did not free slaves in UNION territory is very misleading if not dishonest. The whole point is that the President had NO constitutional authority to simply declare slaves free no matter how much he might have wanted to! (And for some time before the Proclamation Lincoln had been pleading with the border states to abolish slavery and accept compensated emancipation.) The basis for the Proclamation was his WAR powers -- the right to deprive those in rebellion of property and other means of supporting that rebellion.

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Slavery was OFFICIALLY abolished throughtout the United States, when the 13th amendment to the Constitution was ratified by the states

Year 1865

(more precisely - Congress passes the amendment -January 31, 1865
[Lincoln signs it, although this is not required with Constitutional amendments]
amendment receives the required approval of legsislatures of 3/4 of the states -December 6, 1865
Secretary of State officially s the amendment's ratification: December 18, 1865)

Summary of dates:
http://www.nps.gov/malu/documents/amend13.htm

more of the story of the 13th amendment -
http://www.mrlincolnandfreedom.org/inside.asp?ID=56&subjectID=3
Check out the WHOLE site for interesting articles on Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, etc. It should make clear that Sothron's claim that Lincoln did not really want to free the slaves is totally bogus. (In his final months he also began to push the idea that educated blacks and those who had fought in the war ought also be given the right to vote.)

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BUT there's a problem with the 1865 date for the ending of slavery.

Many have argued that this date is not accurate, because the South managed by various legal means to keep many blacks in a state that, except for the name, was slavery. Chief among these were the system of "peonage" (debt-slavery) and the "convict lease system", both of which persisted until the early 20th century.

Under the convict lease system, blacks might be arrested for petty (or even trumped up) charges, given very long sentences, then brutally worked by the state (think of the famous/infamous chain gangs) or leased out to farms or businesses. The system was frequently criticized, but only began to be dismantled during "the Progressive era". The last state to end this practice (also the first to use it, beginning in 1846) was Alabama. The legislature mandated that it end on June 30, 1928.

Hence, according to some reckonings, the date at which slavery was finally legally abolished was:
July 1, 1928.

http://www.archives.state.al.us/thisweek/chrono.html
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=214
(see Frederick Douglass's criticism of the system:
http://www.historyisaweapon.org/defcon1/fredouconlea.html)

How Southern states circumvented the 13th amendment (allowed by the federal courts):
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/lawreviews/meta-elements/journals/bclawr/45_2/02_TXT.htm

Answer 2

Slavery didn t end with the Emancipation Proclamation. It only ended slavery in ten states...all of which had seceded from the union. Other states still had their slaves. The thirteenth amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States.

Answer 3

The 13th amendment was ratified at the end of 1865.
Please note that the Emancipation Proclamation had left slavery perfectly legal in places like Maryland, and would have been unconstitutional had it included those states not considered in active rebellion. The 13th amendment was needed to end slavery and the Mass. compromise.

Answer 4

Read your Constitution!

According to the 13th Amendment, slavery as a punishment for crimes of which you have been duly convicted is still perfectly legal in the United States. That's how you can have chain gangs or litter crews, or require convicts to perform whatever involutary servitude the state deems appropriate.

And you should chastise your teacher for not bringing that to your attention!

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Answer 6

They say here in Ct slavery went on till 1965

Answer 7

1865

Answer 8

After the Emancipation Proclomation of 1863 all slaves in the south were to be freed.

Answer 9

It hasn't ended yet

Answer 10

It hasn't.