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re: #204 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
One little nit — the southern states weren’t absent, they were required to ratify the reconstruction amendments as a condition of being readmitted to full membership in the US.
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Reconstruction-era legislators ratified it in most cases. But Mississippi didn’t ratify the 13th until 2013.
Mississippi Officially Ratifies Amendment to Ban Slavery, 148 Years Late
Mississippi voted to ratify it in 1995, but didn’t send in the paperwork until 2013.
