This Day in History: <br />Slavery Is Abolished in America.<br />December 18, 1865.<br />The 13th Amendment was formally <br />adopted into the U.S. Constitution.<br />It ensures that “neither <br />slavery nor involuntary <br />servitude … shall exist within the United <br />States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”.<br />It had been approved <br />in the Republican-led <br />Senate in April of 1864.<br />But the amendment had been <br />bogged down in the Democratic-led <br />House of Representatives for almost a year.<br />On December 2, 1865, <br />Alabama became the 27th state <br />to ratify the 13th Amendment.<br />The former confederate state's <br />vote provided the requisite three-fourths <br />majority of states’ approval needed <br />to make the 13th amendment the law of the land
