Today in Supreme Court History: December 6, 1865

12/6/1865: The 13th Amendment is ratified.

Comments

[MiloMinderbinder]

I saw that movie. Daniel Day-Lewis was brilliant! And Tommy Lee Jones never disappoints.

[Dan Schiavetta]

Good movie. So many things that it educated viewers on, like the importance of getting the Amendment through Congress, and the Hampton Roads conference. But as often with Spielberg, it was overwrought (too much background music and it should have ended with that scene with Lincoln walking away from the camera).

[Cal Cetín]

They could also have done without the elaborate dance number.

Or maybe I'm thinking of a different movie.

[Alpheus W Drinkwater]

I just watched the dance number and fast-forwarded past all the boring stuff.

[Frank Drackman]

Hmm, I thought Abe's "Emancipation Proclamation" freed the Slaves, apparently not in the Union States.

[David Nieporent]

Hmm, I thought

Objection. Assumes facts not in evidence.

[Seamus]

apparently not in the Union States

Also, not in Tennessee, and not in parts of Louisiana and Virginia (though the 1864 constitution of the "Restored Government" of Virginia abolished slavery in those parts of the Commonwealth under Union control).