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Slavery Abolished

On February 1, 1835, slavery was abolished in Mauritius. Twenty-​six years later, in the American Civil War, Texas seceded from the United States. On this date in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln signed a Joint Resolution from Congress formally submitting the proposed Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution to the states for ratification.

This Amendment abolished chattel slavery throughout the union.

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