In this segment, Les Sinclair talks with historian Rick Britton about Today in U.S. History – On this day in 1865—155 years ago—the 13th Amendment was formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution, ensuring that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude…shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

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On December 18, the 13th Amendment was officially adopted into the Constitution—246 years after the first shipload of captive Africans landed at Jamestown, Virginia.