Dammit! Beaten again. lol
1995 Mississippi.
They're a little slow down there I guess.
gale
----- Original Message ----
From: Alec Wood <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tuesday, July 8, 2008 10:37:22 AM
Subject: Re: Happy 4th of July, folks
The last state to ratify the 13th amendment was in the 1990s. Mississippi.
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> From: Paleo Phil <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Monday, July 7, 2008 7:15:02 PM
> Subject: Re: Happy 4th of July, folks
>
> > >>----- Original Message ----
> > >>
> > >> Alec Wood wrote: Here is a trivia question for you all.
> > >> Which amendment took over 200 years to pass?
> > >
>
> OK, here's another one. In what decade did the last state ratify the
> Thirteenth Amendment, which was proposed to the state legislatures by the US
> Congress on January 31, 1865 and which abolished slavery (of the 36 that
> existed at the time it was originally proposed)?
