Posted on Dec 6, 2025
13th Amendment ratified | December 6, 1865 | HISTORY
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On December 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, officially ending the institution of slavery, is ratified. “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.” With these words, the single greatest change wrought by the Civil War was officially noted in the Constitution.
13th Amendment ratified | December 6, 1865 | HISTORY
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Such a touchy topic, and I wish we taught it better. The average person in America has no clue how widespread Slavery was in the world. And if you rank the top Ten Civilizations for owning Slaves, it would surprise people that no country in the New World is on that list. And it would probably surprise most folks that the first three Nations to decide that owning another Human Being was wrong...were all White Nations. And little attention is paid to the Sellers, not the middle men, those could be almost anyone. Blacks sold Blacks. Whites sold Whites....etc. And maybe people would understand why Delft pottery showed up in countries on the Barbary Coast...and who ransomed those slaves. And today, Slavery still exists, as does Indentured Servitude...and some day, maybe we will grow up and not need laws to determine the Humanity of a human being .
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SGT Kevin Hughes
And I would like to add this...from the beginning of Recorded History...let's be generous and say that was five to seven thousand years ago, in all those millennia and Civilizations rose and fell...it was not until the mid eighteenth century that any Nation thought to outlaw Slavery. Denmark was first, Haiti was the first in the Americas...and then France, but that wasn't to last. Then in the 1800's more and more countries abolished the slave trade. It had been done earlier, in the 1400's but just didn't stick. So it took us until basically two centuries ago to figure out that you can't own people. And we still haven't settled that. Sheesh.
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LTC Matthew Schlosser
Correction: The average person in America has no clue how widespread slavery IS in the world, including in the United States.
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and yet there are some that would have no problem to return to that Hell.
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LTC Matthew Schlosser
Your comment presupposes that we ever left that Hell. Slavery exists in the United States in 2025.
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