The argument will be: many states’ citizens voted to CONTINUE WITH SLAVERY in their own states.
It was found unconstitutional
NO....a constitutional amendment which went into affect in Dec 1865, near the end of the civil war....without the slave states ratifying the 13th amendment...it was ratified years AFTER the Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves.
ps I neither support slavely nor am I southern...just want to get the facts straight.
The Emancipation Proclamation was unconstitutional and did not free a single slave directly, as it applied only to Confederate areas outside the reach of the Union. That’s why the 13th Amendment came in 1865. The real impact of the proclamation was to welcome fleeing slaves into the Union Army.