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The Thirteenth Amendment was ratified by twenty-seven States of the then thirty-six States of the Union, including the Southern States of Virginia, Louisiana, Arkansas, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, and Georgia.

Just to clear things up, did their representatives and senators in Congress also have the opportunity to cast their votes on whether or not to propose the amendments in the first place?

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Sorry, that should have read, "to propose the amendment" (not "amemdmentS"), referring to the 13th.