The end of slavery
February 6, 2009
Feb. 1 was National Freedom Day, the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the 13th amendment in 1865. Harry Truman made the day official in 1948.
The 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States, and the Library of Congress notes that the purpose of National Freedom Day is “to remember that the United States is a nation dedicated to the ideal of freedom.”
Cornell University Library has a manuscript copy of the 13th amendment, signed by Abraham Lincoln and members of Congress in 1865, in the Nicholas H. Noyes Collection of Historical Americana.
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