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Why was the 13th Amendment significant?

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The 13th Amendment was essential because President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, released in January 1863, did not completely abolish slavery; individuals enslaved in border states remained enslaved. Slavery was abolished as an institution in all U.S. states and territories by the 13th Amendment.

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