The __________ abolished slavery in the United States.

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The Thirteenth Amendment, ratified in 1865, officially abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States. The Emancipation Proclamation did not actually abolish slavery, but it did declare that all enslaved persons in the Confederate states "shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." The Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and the Fifteenth Amendment granted the right to vote to African American men.

The __________ Abolished Slavery in the United States