What law banned slavery?

Question

When was it signed. what did the emancipation proclomation do?

Answer 1

In the United States? The 13th Amendment
It was ratified December 6, 1865

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in the states which were in rebellion, but only in territory that the north did not control. So Lincoln freed the slaves in places where he couldn't actually free them (but other than that)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_proclamation
http://www.nps.gov/ncro/anti/emancipation.html
http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/almtime.html

Answer 2

Although the Emancipation Proclamation "officially" ended slavery, it really didn't. As someone else stated, the Emancipation Proclamation was intended to end slavery in the parts of the South that were not yet under the North's control. This meant they had no way to enforce the law. Also, the border states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri as well as Tennessee (which was a former Confederate state under Union control) did not fall under the jurisdiction of the Emancipation Proclamation. Certain counties in West Virginia, Virginia, and Louisiana were also out of the jurisdiction of the Emancipation Proclamation. The only real impact of the Emancipation Proclamation is that it recruited nearly 200,000 African American to serve in the Union army!

It was actually the 13th Amendment (to the Constitution) that ended slavery once and for all. The 13th Amendment was not ratified until December 18, 1865, 8 months after Lincoln had been assassinated.

Answer 3

The English Parliament banned slavery in 1833, after banning British participation in the slave trade in 1807, and forming the Anti-Slavery Squadron to harass other nations' ships (especially French ships) transporting slaves.

President Lincoln signed the final version of the Emancipation proclamation on January 1, 1863. It was the official act abolishing slavery in the United States.

News of the emancipation of all slaves in the United States of America took reached Texas two and a half years later - at least, it was only made plain to the slaves that they were free then - on June 19, 1865. The event is remembered as Juneteenth.

Answer 4

The Emancipation Proclomation was a speech from Abe Lincoln after the battle of Gettysburg where Lincoln said that slavery is abolished. What most people don't know is that this speech really didn't do anything and had no legal power. However, Congress signed the 13th Amendment not too late after which abolished slavery.

Year? I believe it was 1863.

Answer 5

Ok...first up, it was the 13th Amendment which banned slavery. The 15th granted African-Americans the right to vote.

The Emancipation Proclamation, put out in 1862 and officially going into effect on Jan. 1, 1863, really didn't do all that much. If you read it, you'll see that it frees slaves only in areas not under control of the union army. It didn't free slaves in conquered areas of Louisiana, Tennessee or Virginia, nor did it free slaves in the border states that stayed with the Union, such as Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland or Delaware.

Answer 6

the 13th amendment to the U.S. Constitution officially abolished, and continues to prohibit, slavery, and, with limited exceptions, prohibits involuntary servitude. The Amendment in practice emancipated only the slaves of Delaware and Kentucky, as everywhere else the slaves had been freed by state action or by the federal government's Emancipation Proclamation. This amendment only needed to be ratified by 27 of the then 36 states to be passed. It was passed in December of 1865.

The amendment states:

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.


It is interesting to note that Mississippi did not ratify this amendment until 1995.

Answer 7

it was the 13th amendment, passed in 1865. The Emancipation Proclimation only abolished slavery in states that suceeded from the union, and had a few more restrictions. Now, do your own homework.

Answer 8

this is totally in the realm of head games today slaves are the working poor they get some money just enough to make them a slave to the industry they work for and soon the replacements will be in place so they don't have to finance the retirements and disabilities cause by too little too late but u think there is an end to slavery and it is only beginning 3% have ninety percent of everything the rest look like lemmings

Answer 9

The Emancipation Proclamation given by Lincoln in 1863 "freed" the slaves in the Union. It did not free the slaves in the Confederacy at that time because those states had already left the Union. It really was just a token speech because there were very few slaves in the North. Border states like Maryland and Missouri had their slaves freed because they were slave states that did not secede from the Union.

The slaves were entirely freed in the South when the war was over 1865.

Answer 10

thirteenth amenment dec 18 1865