Mississippi Finally Bans Slavery
After almost a century and a half since the end of the Civil War and slavery, Mississippi has finally ratified the 13th Amendment.
The state had not officially given the go-ahead in 1865, after Congress passed the Amendment and most states ratified it. Federal record-keepers said the state thought it did, but since the amendment was never transferred to the national archivist, it wasn’t put on record. The paperwork that should have been sent to the National Archives “slipped through the cracks,” reported the LA Times.
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Who caught the gaffe? A recently-naturalized, Indian medical sciences professor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He had seen the film “Lincoln,” and was searching for how the state (the last in the nation to agree with the amendment) finally passed the Amendment. Next to the amendment’s description on UConstitution.net was an asterisk with the following: “Mississippi ratified the amendment in 1995, but because the state never officially notified the U.S. archivist, the ratification is not official.”
The professor notified Mississippi’s secretary of state, and on February 7th, Mississippi officially ratified the Amendment.
