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#OnThisDay in 1865, the 13th Amendment, which outlawed slavery, was officially adopted into the U.S. Constitution—246 years after enslaved Africans landed in Port Comfort in Virginia. The 13th Amendment stated that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime whereof the part shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” The 13th Amendment was intended to complete what free and enslaved African A