Mississippi did not officially ratify the Thirteenth Amendment until 2013

Evidence

Although chattel slavery ended legally in December 1865, when Georgia became the twenty-seventh state to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, the institutionalized racism of slavery refused to die with it. (Mississippi was the last state to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, on March 16, 1995, nearly 130 years later, but it did not notify the US archivist, which did not make the ratification official until 2013.) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 45

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