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In 1820 the comprimise was put into play, the compromise was put into play to try and balance the free and slave states. Later on, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was added, which later ended in chaos -
Fredrick Douglass was one of the main abolitionists. He was a former slave and could speak up and explain how they were treated. He went on from 1830-1860 trying to abolish slavery witht he help of his white friend William Lloyd Garrison. They eventually started to help slaves escape and come north to have freedom by helping use the underground railroad. -
December 14th, 1863, was when the ban of slavery amendment was first brought up by a house republican by the name of James Ashley, and then within that same month, James Wilson from Iowa introduced an amendment to end all slavery. -
On January 1, 1863, this proclamation was put into effect by President Abraham Lincoln. The proclamation was first issued on September 22, 1862, and it stated that in 1863, slaves would be set free in those 10 rebellion states. -
In April 1864, the Senate passed the proposed amendment, but in the House of Representatives, it failed due to the growing resistance by democrats to support it.
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There was a congressional debate in April 1864 on what should truly be put into the amendment. The radical republicans believed that they should add language in there to but that ended up not going into the final version of the amendment
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The Senate Judiciary Committee on February 10, 1864, passed the 13th Amendment, which was presented to the full Senate. Representatives took the first vote, which came out to be well under ⅔, which meant that they still had a long fight ahead before they would see that finish line.
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On April 8th of 1864, the amendment passed with a ⅔ vote in the Senate. And then the House of Representatives passed it on January 31 of 1865. Then, finally, ¾ of all states at the time passed it on December 6th, 1865 -
December 18, 1865, the 13th Amendment was finally added to the Constitution and freed 100,000 slaves from Kentucky to Delaware -
While the 13th Amendment abolished slavery, it didn't end discrimination against African Americans. Many of the southern states had Jim Crow laws and Black Codes in the 1870s, which segregated the blacks from the whites, belittling the African Americans