What year was the no-more-slavery-in-US passed?

Answer 1

The year you want is 1865... details below.

But first --you've been given a LOT of misinformation.
on the Emancipation Proclamation which is worth correcting.

True, it was not the instrument through which slavery was abolished in the United States, but it DID free slaves! Though slaves in rebel territory did not gain their freedom the instant it was proclaimed (in final form on January 1, 1863), 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.

Lincoln apparently did ALSO hope that this act would discourage Britain from deciding to support the Confederacy. . . but it was by no means just a P.R. ploy. (In the North it actually cost him a lot politically that year.)


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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 legislatures 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 recent claim of some that Lincoln detractors that he 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 little more to the story, which you may find of interest

Many have argued that the 1865 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

The importation of slaves was outlawed in 1807, during the Jefferson administration. This did not apply to slaves already in the USA and was widely ignored by slave traders. Britain passed an identical law with identical results that same year.

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freed the slaves in the Confederate states, although since that was in the midst of the Civil War, it had no practical effect.

The 13th Amendment, which actually outlawed slavery as an institution, was ratified in December 1865, eight months after the Civil War ended.

Answer 3

I cannot believe all of these wrong answers. The 13th amendment was adopted in 1865. Slavery officially ended at the stroke of midnight on Dec 31, 1865.

The Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in America. It merely stated that slaves in states currently in rebellion against the US were free. Since those states were under the control of the Confederacy at the time, this was a public relations gesture done for political reasons, and had no practical effect. Moreover, the proclamation did nothing to liberate slaves in the loyal slave states of Missouri, Maryland, Kentucky and Delaware.

Answer 4

1867 with the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution. This was the final end to slavery, although a few isolated plantations in Texas somehow 'forgot' to tell their slaves and their eventual freedom is celebrated on "June teenth".

By the way, this is a full one hundred years before the last country to outlaw slavery finally got around to it (Saudi Arabia).

Answer 5

Well, Lincoln wrote the Imancipation Proclamation in 1863, but that only freed slaves in states that were in rebellion against the union. In other words, if anyone in a "Union" state owned slaves, they were still slaves. My Honors English class told me it was with the 13th amendment - lots of them have Honors History, too.

Answer 6

1997 I believe.