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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC03264.01
From Archive Folder	Documents Relating to the 1860s
Title	Sealed certification of the Thirteenth Amendment
Date	2 February 1865
Author	Seward, William Henry (1801-1872)
Document Type	Government document
Content Description	Seward, Secretary of State, certifies accompanying true copy of Thirteenth Amendment (GLC03264.02). Contains faded seal and fragmented dark blue ribbon. Partially printed on United States Department of State paper.
Subjects	Lincoln's Cabinet Government and Civics US Constitution US Constitutional Amendment African American History Slavery Abolition
People	Seward, William Henry (1801-1872)
Place written	Washington, D.C.
Theme	The American Civil War; Slavery & Abolition; Government & Politics
Sub-collection	The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Additional Information	The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, passed by the Senate April 1864, by the House January 1865, and ratified December 1865, abolished slavery as a legal institution.
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945
Related documents	True copy of the Thirteenth Amendment
Transcript	Show/hide UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: I certify, That annexed is a True copy of a Joint Resolution of Congress, entitled "A Resolution submitting to the legislatures of the several States a proposition to amend the Constitution of the United State;" the original of which is on file in this Department.---------- In testimony whereof, I William H. Seward , SECRETARY OF STATE of the UNITED STATES, have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed. [text loss]ONE at the City of Washington, this second---------- day of February, A.D. 1865, and of the Independence of the United States of America the 89th . William H. Seward [2] A Resolution Submitting to the legislatures of the several States a proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said legislatures, shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as a part of the said Constitution, namely: Article XIII Section 1. Neither slavery nor [3] 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. Approved, February 1, 1865. [Docket] asserted Copy of the Joint Resolution of Congress purposing amendment to Constitution of the U.S. approved 1th Febry 1865 filed Jul 6, 1865,

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