End of slavery in the United States

During the war, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which ordered the liberation of all slaves in rebelling states.

Native American slave ownership also persisted until 1866, when the federal government negotiated new treaties with the "Five Civilized Tribes" in which they agreed to end slavery.

[5] During the war, the abolition of slavery was required by President Abraham Lincoln for the readmission of Confederate states.

In a plan endorsed by Abraham Lincoln, slavery in the District of Columbia, which the Southern contingent had protected, was abolished in 1862.

[7] The Union-occupied territories of Louisiana[8] and eastern Virginia,[9] which had been exempted from the Emancipation Proclamation, also abolished slavery through state constitutions drafted in 1864.

The State of Arkansas, which was not exempt but came partly under Union control by 1864, adopted an anti-slavery constitution in March of that year.

However, slavery persisted in Delaware,[15] Kentucky,[16] and (to a very limited extent) in New Jersey[17][18] — and on the books in 7 of 11 of the former Confederate states.

It became a federal holiday in the United States on June 17, 2021, when President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law.

Although June 19, 1865, was not the actual end of slavery even in Texas (like the Emancipation Proclamation, General Gordon's military order had to be acted upon), and although it has competed with other dates for emancipation's celebration,[24] ordinary African Americans created, preserved, and spread a shared commemoration of slavery's wartime demise across the United States.

251), which was enacted on June 23, 1874, "in response to exploitation of immigrant children in forced begging and street crime by criminalizing the practice of enslaving, buying, selling, or holding any person in involuntary servitude.

In 1890, the Brussels Conference Act adopted a collection of anti-slavery measures to end the slave trade on land and sea.

Even after slavery became illegal more than a century ago, many criminal organizations continued to engage in human trafficking and slave trading.