when was slavery abolished in america?

Answer 1

First, a note/correction -- 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 throughout 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 the claim of some 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

When Was Slavery Abolished

Answer 3

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when was slavery abolished in america?

Answer 5

With the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution on December 18, 1865. The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in Union-occupied areas of the Confederacy, but it did not free slaves in Union states where slavery was still legal.

Answer 6

Jan 1, 1863
Emancipation Proclomation
Abe Lincoln

Answer 7

i do not understand why the stars and bars is associated with slaves, when the stars and strips carried slaves long after the civil war ended. President Lincoln did not abolish slavery in North America. it was a punishment to the southern States for trying to leave the Union.

I personally do not believe slavery was totally abolished in North America. it is not legal but it survives.

Answer 8

WRONG!!! The Emancipation proclamation did not free all the slaves like so many claimed, "it in fact only try to impose a rule on the south, which at that time was a free, independent, and sovereign nation (as they saw themselves).

It read's that, all the slaves living in those states of rebellion were now free, SO he in essence tried to free those slaves, whom he had no authority over.

Not so sure about the the exact wording, but basically, he didn't free all the slaves, not even the ones who lived in the union.

Answer 9

1865 thirteenth amendment. Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in the South.

Answer 10

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