In January of 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, stating that all enslaved people in Confederate states were 
to be freed. However, it did not apply to border states or areas under Union control. The 13th Amendment was passed at the end of the Civil War before the Southern states had returned to the Union. Though the Senate passed it in April 1864, the House did not. Lincoln took an active role to ensure it passed through Congress. He was successful when the House passed the bill in January 1865.
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