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Special Event
Event
The Thirteenth Amendment: Freedom National
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Fee:
Free.Location:
Lincoln Memorial. Meet the ranger on the plaza at the bottom of of the steps of the memorial.Dates & Times
Date:
Monday, May 23, 2022
Time:
11:00 AM
Duration:
1 hour
Type of Event
Talk
Description
With Union victory in the Civil War, Lincoln’s war powers would evaporate. The sense of the victory - the eradication of slavery – had to be sealed under normal rule of law. The cliff-hanger story of Lincoln's role in, and Congress's passage of, the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ending slavery nationwide, tells us that they did it just in time to make a permanent victory for “Freedom National.”