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the thirteenth amendment to the U.S. constitution affected the lives of millions of African Americans by

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Passed in 1865 during the Reconstruction period following the Civil War, the 13th amendment freed enslaved African Americans in the new United States. 
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guaranteeing their permanent freedom from slavery
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