which amendment freed the slaves down
THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT. (freed the slaves) The Emancipation Proclamation was meant to free the slaves in the Confederate States, but the Confederate government did not recognize the Union President freeing their slaves. The Thirteenth Amendment, however, freed the slaves everywhere in the United States.
Many think that slavery ended with the Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. However, the Emancipation Proclamation freed only slaves held in the eleven Confederate states that had seceded, and only in the portion of those states not already under Union control. The true abolition of slavery was achieved when the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified on December 6, 1865.