By Alabama NewsCenter Staff
December 2, 1865: Alabama ratified the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on this day in 1865. The amendment abolished slavery. The state’s ratification was followed by that of North Carolina and then Georgia, reaching the three-fourths threshold of states (27 of 36) required for approval and certification of the amendment. As a result, U.S. slaves were legally freed within two weeks. It was the first of three Reconstruction-era amendments following the Civil War.
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