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	<title>Written in Glory &#187; 13th Amendment</title>
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		<title>December 31, 1863: Epilogue</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 08:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the last day of a signally important year for the young United States (only 87 years old), a year which began with the issuing of an Emancipation Proclamation applying only to slaves in rebelling states, yet which ended with the first of several bills proposing amendments which would totally prohibit slavery throughout the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>December 14, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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The first bill supporting a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery (ultimately the Thirteenth Amendment) was introduced in the House of Representatives today by James Mitchell Ashley of Ohio.   The final text as adopted on December 6, 1865 is presented here:


XIII
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the [...]]]></description>
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