USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Lincoln recognized that the Emancipation Proclamation would have to be followed by a constitutional amendment in order to guarantee the abolishment of slavery. The 13th Amendment was passed at the end of the Civil War before the Southern states had been restored to the Union, and should have easily passed in Congress.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Emancipation Proclamation described enslaved people as “all persons held as slaves” and tells them to abstain from all violence (except in self-defense) and to labor for reasonable wages. The 13th Amendment describes ending “slavery or involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime."

Detailed explanation-3: -The 14th Amendment recognized the citizenship of freed slaves. The Emancipation Proclamation that President Abraham Lincoln issued in 1863 freed the slaves who lived in the Confederate states. Though important, this proclamation was not law and thus not enough.

Detailed explanation-4: -The 2012 film Lincoln told the story of President Abraham Lincoln and the final month of debate over the Thirteenth Amendment, leading to its passage by the House of Representatives on January 31, 1865.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is recognized by many as the formal abolition of slavery in the United States. However, it only ended chattel slavery – slavery in which an individual is considered the personal property of another.