Abolition of Slavery - Shame on Mississippi!

On December 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified and abolished slavery in the United States.  The first states to ratify the 13th Amendment were Illinois on February 1, 1865 and Rhode Island the next day on February 2.

Mississippi finally got around to ratifying the 13th Amendment in 1995, 130 years after its adoption, but failed to notify the Office of the Federal Register in Washington, D.C. of that action until February 2013, which completed the legal process for ratification.  In all, it took the State of Mississippi 148 years to formally ratify the 13th Amendment.