On this date in 1865

[Bull Snipe]

The XIII Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is ratified. Hereditary chattel slavery is outlawed throughout the country.

[GranTorino]

Is it June already?
😁

[RWGinger]

I think you have this amendment confused with the Emancipation Proclamation

[BroJoeK]

That was 1862-3, this is 1865.

[SeeSharp]

The XIII Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is ratified. Hereditary chattel slavery is outlawed throughout the country.

Soon to be replaced by universal public slavery with the passage of the XVI Amendment.

[RWGinger]

You mentioned June
Was that a reference to Juneteeth?

[BroJoeK]

GrandTorino: "Is it June already?"

RWGinger: "I think you have this amendment confused with the Emancipation Proclamation"

BroJoeK: "That was 1862-3, this is 1865."

RWGinger: "You mentioned June
Was that a reference to Juneteeth?"

Sorry, I should have stayed out of this one, have no idea what GrandTorino meant by "June already".

[Verginius Rufus]

On this date in 1889, Jefferson Davis died.

Without secession and the Civil War, slavery would have continued much longer in the United States.

[Bull Snipe]

I agree, probably at least another 20 years or more.

[Verginius Rufus]

Evidently December 6, 1889, was also the day that Mark Twain's novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court was published. Did Twain's book cause Jeff Davis' death?

Mark Twain very briefly served in a Confederate unit.