→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut→’ approval (3/4), it wasn’t until 130 years later on March 16, 1995 that Mississippi finally got around to ratifying the Thirteenth Amendment. As you might expect, this made Mississippi the last state to ratify it, with the previous state of the initial 36 being Kentucky in 1976 and before that Delaware in 1901. All three of those states, along with New Jersey, initially rejected the amendment in 1865, though just 9 months after rejecting it, New Jersey changed their mind and ratified it. The others took a little longer. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/04/mississippi-didnt-officially-outlaw-slavery-until-1995/ Sources: http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F60915FA385B11738DDDA10894D9405B888DF1D3 http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=245&invol=366 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_States http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiii http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution http://www.mrlincolnandfreedom.org/inside.asp?ID=56&subjectID=3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_Amendments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/transcript.html Image Credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:13th_Amendment_Pg1of1_AC.jpg