On this Day in History, December 6, 1865

[AthenaAwakened]

The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Formally abolishing slavery in the United States, the 13th Amendment was passed by the Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Hey, thirty years behind the rest of the world on basic human rights. Good to see you're still sticking with who you are, America!

 

[Derec]

Hey, thirty years behind the rest of the world on basic human rights. Good to see you're still sticking with who you are, America!

Abolition of slavery timeline

1865: December: US abolishes slavery with the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; about 40,000 remaining slaves are affected.[81]
1866: Slavery abolished in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).[82]
1869: February 27: Portugal: King Louis I signs a decree of the government, chaired by the Marquis Sá da Bandeira, abolishing slavery in all Portuguese territories. Accordingly, all slaves in the Portuguese colonies in Africa were set free, resulting in the total termination of slavery across the Portuguese Empire.
1871: Brazil: Rio Branco Law (Law of Free Birth) declares free the sons and daughters born to slave mothers after 28 September 1871.[83]
1873: Slavery abolished in the Spanish colony of Puerto Rico: March 22.
1873: Treaty between Britain and Zanzibar and Madagascar to suppress slave trade.[58]
1874: Britain abolishes slavery in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), following its annexation in 1874.[84]
1877: Egypt abolishes slavery in August.
1879: After spending 5 centuries as an Ottoman province the newly restored principality of Bulgaria abolished slavery with its new constitution declaring that any slave arriving on its territory is freed at once.
1882: Ottoman firman abolishes all forms of slavery, white or black.[85]
1884: France abolished slavery in its then Protectorate of Cambodia.
1885: Brazil passes Sexagenarians Law (Saraiva-Cotegipe Act), freeing all slaves over the age of 60, and creating other measures for the gradual abolition of slavery, such as a Manumissions Fund administered by the State.
1886: Slavery abolished in Cuba.[34]
1888: May 13: Brazil enacts the Golden Law, decreeing the total abolition of slavery with immediate effect, without indemnities to slave owners, but the financial aid to the freed men and women planned by the monarchy never took place due to a military coup that established a Republic in the country.[86]
1890: Brussels Conference Act – a collection of anti-slavery measures to put an end to the slave trade on land and sea, especially in the Congo Basin, the Ottoman Empire, and the East African coast.
1894: Korea officially abolishes slavery, but it survives in practice until 1930.[87]
1896: France abolishes slavery in its then colony of Madagascar.
1897: Zanzibar abolishes slavery[88] following its becoming a British protectorate.
1899: France abolishes slavery in Ndzuwani.
1900–present[edit]
1902: The Ethiopian Empire abolishes slavery (although it was legally and officially abolished by Emperor Haile Selassie in 1942).[citation needed]
1906: China formally abolishes slavery effective 31 January 1910, when all adult slaves were converted into hired labourers and the young were freed upon reaching age 25.[29]
1912: Siam (Thailand) formally abolishes all slavery. The act of selling a person into slavery was abolished in 1897, but slavery itself was not outlawed at that time.[89]
1922: Morocco abolishes slavery.[90]
1923: Afghanistan abolishes slavery.[91]
1924: Iraq abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1924: League of Nations appoints a Temporary Slavery Commission.
1926: Nepal abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1926: September 25: Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery bound all signatories to end slavery.[citation needed]
1928: Iran abolishes slavery.[92]
1928: Domestic slavery practised by local African elites abolished in Sierra Leone.[93] Although established as a place for freed slaves, a study found practices of domestic slavery still widespread in rural areas in the 1970s.[citation needed]
1935: Italian General Emilio De Bono proclaims slavery to be abolished in the Ethiopian Empire.[94]
1936: Britain abolishes slavery in Northern Nigeria.[95]
1946: Fritz Sauckel, Nazi official responsible for procuring forced labor in occupied Europe during World War II, is convicted of crimes against humanity and hanged.[citation needed]
1948: UN Article 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares slavery to be contrary to human rights.[96]
1952: Qatar abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1958: Bhutan abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1960: Niger abolishes slavery (although it was not made illegal until 2003).[97]
1962: Saudi Arabia abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1962: Yemen abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1964: The United Arab Emirates abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1970: Oman abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1981: Mauritania abolishes slavery.[98][99][100]
2003: Niger makes slavery a crime.[97]
2007: Mauritania makes slavery a crime.[101]
2009: UK, section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.[102]
2015: UK, Modern Slavery Act 2015.[citation needed]

The history of Arab/Muslim countries abolishing slavery very late makes one wonder why black nationalists/radicals chose conversion to Islam to mark their radicalism.

 

[beero1000]

Abolition of slavery timeline

1865: December: US abolishes slavery with the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; about 40,000 remaining slaves are affected.[81]
1866: Slavery abolished in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).[82]
1869: February 27: Portugal: King Louis I signs a decree of the government, chaired by the Marquis Sá da Bandeira, abolishing slavery in all Portuguese territories. Accordingly, all slaves in the Portuguese colonies in Africa were set free, resulting in the total termination of slavery across the Portuguese Empire.
1871: Brazil: Rio Branco Law (Law of Free Birth) declares free the sons and daughters born to slave mothers after 28 September 1871.[83]
1873: Slavery abolished in the Spanish colony of Puerto Rico: March 22.
1873: Treaty between Britain and Zanzibar and Madagascar to suppress slave trade.[58]
1874: Britain abolishes slavery in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), following its annexation in 1874.[84]
1877: Egypt abolishes slavery in August.
1879: After spending 5 centuries as an Ottoman province the newly restored principality of Bulgaria abolished slavery with its new constitution declaring that any slave arriving on its territory is freed at once.
1882: Ottoman firman abolishes all forms of slavery, white or black.[85]
1884: France abolished slavery in its then Protectorate of Cambodia.
1885: Brazil passes Sexagenarians Law (Saraiva-Cotegipe Act), freeing all slaves over the age of 60, and creating other measures for the gradual abolition of slavery, such as a Manumissions Fund administered by the State.
1886: Slavery abolished in Cuba.[34]
1888: May 13: Brazil enacts the Golden Law, decreeing the total abolition of slavery with immediate effect, without indemnities to slave owners, but the financial aid to the freed men and women planned by the monarchy never took place due to a military coup that established a Republic in the country.[86]
1890: Brussels Conference Act – a collection of anti-slavery measures to put an end to the slave trade on land and sea, especially in the Congo Basin, the Ottoman Empire, and the East African coast.
1894: Korea officially abolishes slavery, but it survives in practice until 1930.[87]
1896: France abolishes slavery in its then colony of Madagascar.
1897: Zanzibar abolishes slavery[88] following its becoming a British protectorate.
1899: France abolishes slavery in Ndzuwani.
1900–present[edit]
1902: The Ethiopian Empire abolishes slavery (although it was legally and officially abolished by Emperor Haile Selassie in 1942).[citation needed]
1906: China formally abolishes slavery effective 31 January 1910, when all adult slaves were converted into hired labourers and the young were freed upon reaching age 25.[29]
1912: Siam (Thailand) formally abolishes all slavery. The act of selling a person into slavery was abolished in 1897, but slavery itself was not outlawed at that time.[89]
1922: Morocco abolishes slavery.[90]
1923: Afghanistan abolishes slavery.[91]
1924: Iraq abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1924: League of Nations appoints a Temporary Slavery Commission.
1926: Nepal abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1926: September 25: Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery bound all signatories to end slavery.[citation needed]
1928: Iran abolishes slavery.[92]
1928: Domestic slavery practised by local African elites abolished in Sierra Leone.[93] Although established as a place for freed slaves, a study found practices of domestic slavery still widespread in rural areas in the 1970s.[citation needed]
1935: Italian General Emilio De Bono proclaims slavery to be abolished in the Ethiopian Empire.[94]
1936: Britain abolishes slavery in Northern Nigeria.[95]
1946: Fritz Sauckel, Nazi official responsible for procuring forced labor in occupied Europe during World War II, is convicted of crimes against humanity and hanged.[citation needed]
1948: UN Article 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares slavery to be contrary to human rights.[96]
1952: Qatar abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1958: Bhutan abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1960: Niger abolishes slavery (although it was not made illegal until 2003).[97]
1962: Saudi Arabia abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1962: Yemen abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1964: The United Arab Emirates abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1970: Oman abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1981: Mauritania abolishes slavery.[98][99][100]
2003: Niger makes slavery a crime.[97]
2007: Mauritania makes slavery a crime.[101]
2009: UK, section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.[102]
2015: UK, Modern Slavery Act 2015.[citation needed]

The history of Arab/Muslim countries abolishing slavery very late makes one wonder why black nationalists/radicals chose conversion to Islam to mark their radicalism.

Yes, the US abolishing slavery 60 years before Afghanistan makes me proud to be an American.

 

[Derec]

Yes, the US abolishing slavery 60 years before Afghanistan makes me proud to be an American.

It was also years before countries like France abolished it in their overseas colonies.
In any case, it soundly refutes Tom Sawyer's "Hey, thirty years behind the rest of the world" quip.

 

[Valjean]

There are still millions of slaves in the world.


The 13th amendment brought about some significant changes, but it wasn't long until the Southern whites worked out ways around them, relegating blacks to a social status little better than their previous station.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Yes, the US abolishing slavery 60 years before Afghanistan makes me proud to be an American.

It was also years before countries like France abolished it in their overseas colonies.
In any case, it soundly refutes Tom Sawyer's "Hey, thirty years behind the rest of the world" quip.

Ok, thirty years behind Canada then.

The point was that, despite Americans constant claims to the contrary, their country has never been a leader in the causes of freedom and human rights and has always been lagging behind others or in the middle of the pack. The fact that you're now being dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century isn't some kind of historical anomaly, but something consistent with your country's history.

 

[iolo]

It was also years before countries like France abolished it in their overseas colonies.
In any case, it soundly refutes Tom Sawyer's "Hey, thirty years behind the rest of the world" quip.

Ok, thirty years behind Canada then.

The point was that, despite Americans constant claims to the contrary, their country has never been a leader in the causes of freedom and human rights and has always been lagging behind others or in the middle of the pack. The fact that you're now being dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century isn't some kind of historical anomaly, but something consistent with your country's history.

The UK courts simply pointed out that slavery could not legally exist in exist in Britain way back in the Eighteenth Century (I believe the Normans abolished it), and when the movement to abolish the disgusting slave trade got going, it didn't take long before the people where swarming to join Wilberforce and put a stop to that muck. The abolition of slavery in the colonies - at huge cost, to the benefit of Cameron's family and the like in 'compensation' - followed soon after, and was completed about thirty years before America got around to it.. The difference between us and the US, as always, is that here the scumbag minority is very small. Decent Americans are just like decent people anywhere, often better, but there are incredible numbers of weirdoes so backward that it is terrifying for the world to contemplate, still.

 

[Harry Bosch]

There are still millions of slaves in the world.


The 13th amendment brought about some significant changes, but it wasn't long until the Southern whites worked out ways around them, relegating blacks to a social status little better than their previous station.

There are more slaves today than at any time in history. It's sad that people believe that the issue is over.

 

[AthenaAwakened]

Abolition of slavery timeline

1865: December: US abolishes slavery with the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; about 40,000 remaining slaves are affected.[81]
1866: Slavery abolished in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).[82]
1869: February 27: Portugal: King Louis I signs a decree of the government, chaired by the Marquis Sá da Bandeira, abolishing slavery in all Portuguese territories. Accordingly, all slaves in the Portuguese colonies in Africa were set free, resulting in the total termination of slavery across the Portuguese Empire.
1871: Brazil: Rio Branco Law (Law of Free Birth) declares free the sons and daughters born to slave mothers after 28 September 1871.[83]
1873: Slavery abolished in the Spanish colony of Puerto Rico: March 22.
1873: Treaty between Britain and Zanzibar and Madagascar to suppress slave trade.[58]
1874: Britain abolishes slavery in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), following its annexation in 1874.[84]
1877: Egypt abolishes slavery in August.
1879: After spending 5 centuries as an Ottoman province the newly restored principality of Bulgaria abolished slavery with its new constitution declaring that any slave arriving on its territory is freed at once.
1882: Ottoman firman abolishes all forms of slavery, white or black.[85]
1884: France abolished slavery in its then Protectorate of Cambodia.
1885: Brazil passes Sexagenarians Law (Saraiva-Cotegipe Act), freeing all slaves over the age of 60, and creating other measures for the gradual abolition of slavery, such as a Manumissions Fund administered by the State.
1886: Slavery abolished in Cuba.[34]
1888: May 13: Brazil enacts the Golden Law, decreeing the total abolition of slavery with immediate effect, without indemnities to slave owners, but the financial aid to the freed men and women planned by the monarchy never took place due to a military coup that established a Republic in the country.[86]
1890: Brussels Conference Act – a collection of anti-slavery measures to put an end to the slave trade on land and sea, especially in the Congo Basin, the Ottoman Empire, and the East African coast.
1894: Korea officially abolishes slavery, but it survives in practice until 1930.[87]
1896: France abolishes slavery in its then colony of Madagascar.
1897: Zanzibar abolishes slavery[88] following its becoming a British protectorate.
1899: France abolishes slavery in Ndzuwani.
1900–present[edit]
1902: The Ethiopian Empire abolishes slavery (although it was legally and officially abolished by Emperor Haile Selassie in 1942).[citation needed]
1906: China formally abolishes slavery effective 31 January 1910, when all adult slaves were converted into hired labourers and the young were freed upon reaching age 25.[29]
1912: Siam (Thailand) formally abolishes all slavery. The act of selling a person into slavery was abolished in 1897, but slavery itself was not outlawed at that time.[89]
1922: Morocco abolishes slavery.[90]
1923: Afghanistan abolishes slavery.[91]
1924: Iraq abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1924: League of Nations appoints a Temporary Slavery Commission.
1926: Nepal abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1926: September 25: Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery bound all signatories to end slavery.[citation needed]
1928: Iran abolishes slavery.[92]
1928: Domestic slavery practised by local African elites abolished in Sierra Leone.[93] Although established as a place for freed slaves, a study found practices of domestic slavery still widespread in rural areas in the 1970s.[citation needed]
1935: Italian General Emilio De Bono proclaims slavery to be abolished in the Ethiopian Empire.[94]
1936: Britain abolishes slavery in Northern Nigeria.[95]
1946: Fritz Sauckel, Nazi official responsible for procuring forced labor in occupied Europe during World War II, is convicted of crimes against humanity and hanged.[citation needed]
1948: UN Article 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares slavery to be contrary to human rights.[96]
1952: Qatar abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1958: Bhutan abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1960: Niger abolishes slavery (although it was not made illegal until 2003).[97]
1962: Saudi Arabia abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1962: Yemen abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1964: The United Arab Emirates abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1970: Oman abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1981: Mauritania abolishes slavery.[98][99][100]
2003: Niger makes slavery a crime.[97]
2007: Mauritania makes slavery a crime.[101]
2009: UK, section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.[102]
2015: UK, Modern Slavery Act 2015.[citation needed]

The history of Arab/Muslim countries abolishing slavery very late makes one wonder why black nationalists/radicals chose conversion to Islam to mark their radicalism.

if you really wonder, which you don't, why don't you walk up to one of the brothers in bow-ties selling Final Call and ask them?

 

[laughing dog]

Abolition of slavery timeline

1865: December: US abolishes slavery with the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; about 40,000 remaining slaves are affected.[81]
1866: Slavery abolished in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).[82]
1869: February 27: Portugal: King Louis I signs a decree of the government, chaired by the Marquis Sá da Bandeira, abolishing slavery in all Portuguese territories. Accordingly, all slaves in the Portuguese colonies in Africa were set free, resulting in the total termination of slavery across the Portuguese Empire.
1871: Brazil: Rio Branco Law (Law of Free Birth) declares free the sons and daughters born to slave mothers after 28 September 1871.[83]
1873: Slavery abolished in the Spanish colony of Puerto Rico: March 22.
1873: Treaty between Britain and Zanzibar and Madagascar to suppress slave trade.[58]
1874: Britain abolishes slavery in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), following its annexation in 1874.[84]
1877: Egypt abolishes slavery in August.
1879: After spending 5 centuries as an Ottoman province the newly restored principality of Bulgaria abolished slavery with its new constitution declaring that any slave arriving on its territory is freed at once.
1882: Ottoman firman abolishes all forms of slavery, white or black.[85]
1884: France abolished slavery in its then Protectorate of Cambodia.
1885: Brazil passes Sexagenarians Law (Saraiva-Cotegipe Act), freeing all slaves over the age of 60, and creating other measures for the gradual abolition of slavery, such as a Manumissions Fund administered by the State.
1886: Slavery abolished in Cuba.[34]
1888: May 13: Brazil enacts the Golden Law, decreeing the total abolition of slavery with immediate effect, without indemnities to slave owners, but the financial aid to the freed men and women planned by the monarchy never took place due to a military coup that established a Republic in the country.[86]
1890: Brussels Conference Act – a collection of anti-slavery measures to put an end to the slave trade on land and sea, especially in the Congo Basin, the Ottoman Empire, and the East African coast.
1894: Korea officially abolishes slavery, but it survives in practice until 1930.[87]
1896: France abolishes slavery in its then colony of Madagascar.
1897: Zanzibar abolishes slavery[88] following its becoming a British protectorate.
1899: France abolishes slavery in Ndzuwani.
1900–present[edit]
1902: The Ethiopian Empire abolishes slavery (although it was legally and officially abolished by Emperor Haile Selassie in 1942).[citation needed]
1906: China formally abolishes slavery effective 31 January 1910, when all adult slaves were converted into hired labourers and the young were freed upon reaching age 25.[29]
1912: Siam (Thailand) formally abolishes all slavery. The act of selling a person into slavery was abolished in 1897, but slavery itself was not outlawed at that time.[89]
1922: Morocco abolishes slavery.[90]
1923: Afghanistan abolishes slavery.[91]
1924: Iraq abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1924: League of Nations appoints a Temporary Slavery Commission.
1926: Nepal abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1926: September 25: Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery bound all signatories to end slavery.[citation needed]
1928: Iran abolishes slavery.[92]
1928: Domestic slavery practised by local African elites abolished in Sierra Leone.[93] Although established as a place for freed slaves, a study found practices of domestic slavery still widespread in rural areas in the 1970s.[citation needed]
1935: Italian General Emilio De Bono proclaims slavery to be abolished in the Ethiopian Empire.[94]
1936: Britain abolishes slavery in Northern Nigeria.[95]
1946: Fritz Sauckel, Nazi official responsible for procuring forced labor in occupied Europe during World War II, is convicted of crimes against humanity and hanged.[citation needed]
1948: UN Article 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares slavery to be contrary to human rights.[96]
1952: Qatar abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1958: Bhutan abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1960: Niger abolishes slavery (although it was not made illegal until 2003).[97]
1962: Saudi Arabia abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1962: Yemen abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1964: The United Arab Emirates abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1970: Oman abolishes slavery.[citation needed]
1981: Mauritania abolishes slavery.[98][99][100]
2003: Niger makes slavery a crime.[97]
2007: Mauritania makes slavery a crime.[101]
2009: UK, section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.[102]
2015: UK, Modern Slavery Act 2015.[citation needed]

The history of Arab/Muslim countries abolishing slavery very late makes one wonder why black nationalists/radicals chose conversion to Islam to mark their radicalism.

Actually your post makes one wonder what drives your obsession about "black nationalist/radicals" to derail an OP about the abolition of slavery in the US with an irrelevant question.

 

[dismal]

It was also years before countries like France abolished it in their overseas colonies.
In any case, it soundly refutes Tom Sawyer's "Hey, thirty years behind the rest of the world" quip.

Ok, thirty years behind Canada then.

You mean Great Britain?

Canada became an independent country in 1982. 200 years behind the US.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Abolition of slavery timeline


The history of Arab/Muslim countries abolishing slavery very late makes one wonder why black nationalists/radicals chose conversion to Islam to mark their radicalism.

Actually your post makes one wonder what drives your obsession about "black nationalist/radicals" to derail an OP about the abolition of slavery in the US with an irrelevant question.

Especially when the South didn't enter in to it willingly. They started a war to save slavery.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Ok, thirty years behind Canada then.

You mean Great Britain?

Canada became an independent country in 1982. 200 years behind the US.

Actually, 1867 and we did it by asking politely by sitting down and having a cup of tea with the queen instead of being boorish and dumping all of that tea in the ocean. 1982 was just a revamping of our constitution.

The point is that the US is not and never really has been the "leader of the free world". It's the crazy uncle of the free world and it hasn't ever done much in the way of leading.

 

[dismal]

You mean Great Britain?

Canada became an independent country in 1982. 200 years behind the US.

Actually, 1867 and we did it by asking politely by sitting down and having a cup of tea with the queen instead of being boorish and dumping all of that tea in the ocean. 1982 was just a revamping of our constitution.

The point is that the US is not and never really has been the "leader of the free world". It's the crazy uncle of the free world and it hasn't ever done much in the way of leading.

Nope, 1982. That "revamping" was more like "getting control of your constitution from British Parliament".

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Actually, 1867 and we did it by asking politely by sitting down and having a cup of tea with the queen instead of being boorish and dumping all of that tea in the ocean. 1982 was just a revamping of our constitution.

The point is that the US is not and never really has been the "leader of the free world". It's the crazy uncle of the free world and it hasn't ever done much in the way of leading.

Nope, 1982. That "revamping" was more like "getting control of your constitution from British Parliament".

Ya, that's true but it's weird how the British parliament had no influence on it for more than a century before that. Good old US education system failing it's population again.

 

[dismal]

Nope, 1982. That "revamping" was more like "getting control of your constitution from British Parliament".

Ya, that's true but it's weird how the British parliament had no influence on it for more than a century before that. Good old US education system failing it's population again.

More like wikipedia. No one cares enough here or anywhere to study your self-delusion that you were independent when Britain literally had your Constitution in its control and possession.

 

[Rhea]

The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Formally abolishing slavery in the United States, the 13th Amendment was passed by the Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865

Took them fucking long enough.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Formally abolishing slavery in the United States, the 13th Amendment was passed by the Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865

Took them fucking long enough.

Actually, I believe one year to ratify a constitutional amendment is break neck speed in Constitution time. More so, most of the states approved it in February 1865.

 

[iolo]

Ya, that's true but it's weird how the British parliament had no influence on it for more than a century before that. Good old US education system failing it's population again.

More like wikipedia. No one cares enough here or anywhere to study your self-delusion that you were independent when Britain literally had your Constitution in its control and possession.

God, Americans are so literally-minded! No wonder they find irony so difficult to follow! How exactly do you think the UK could have forced Canada to do anything? Grow up.