The Last Battle of the civil War

This timeline covers events from 1774 when the Continental Congress approved a resolution prohibiting slave importations and further American participation in the slave trade and concludes when John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
the above statement is all i can find without going into lenghty search. it shows that further slave trade was forbiden but never show slavery was outlawed. several states adopted reforms to slowly end slavery but nothing to suddenly stop it.
ive always found this topic extremly interresting.....


the following Amendment the 13th abolished slavery legally in 1865...
if the act of slavery itself being evil/or wrong , which it is, was the reason for the war then why did the federal gov. not end it prior to the war. Also why did they end it in the southern states a few years before ending it in the northern states.
we all know the reason . lincoln believed it would cripple the southern states and help end the war.



Amendment XIII (the Thirteenth Amendment) of the United States Constitution officially abolished slavery and, with the exception of allowing punishments for crimes, prohibits involuntary servitude. In actuality the Amendment affected only Delaware and Kentucky. Everywhere else slavery had been abolished by state action or the Emancipation Proclamation. Abraham Lincoln was the main author of the Amendment, insisting it was needed to guarantee the permanent abolition of slavery.

The article states:

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
The thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the legislatures of the several states by the Thirty-eighth Congress, on January 31, 1865. Although it was ratified by the necessary three-quarters of the states within a year of its proposal, its most recent ratification occurred as recently as 1995, in Mississippi, which was the last of the thirty-six states in existence in 1865 to ratify it.