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Debates in the House of Representatives on the Thirteenth Amendment, 1864

May–June 1864. The House of Representatives' debate on the Senate's joint resolution (S. No. 16) proposing the Thirteenth Amendment: every item headed “Abolition of Slavery” in which the House took it up, and its evening session of May 31, as printed in the Congressional Globe, from May 31 to June 28, 1864, with the vote of June 15.

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    May 31, 1864

    55 paragraphs6 min
  2. 2

    May 31, 1864 (2)

    40 paragraphs22 min
  3. 3

    May 31, 1864 (3)

    70 paragraphs57 min
  4. 4

    June 3, 1864

    9 paragraphs2 min
  5. 5

    June 14, 1864

    2 paragraphs1 min
  6. 6

    June 14, 1864 (2)

    96 paragraphs83 min
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    June 14, 1864 (3)

    221 paragraphs146 min
  8. 8

    June 15, 1864

    368 paragraphs177 min
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    June 15, 1864 (2)

    42 paragraphs5 min
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    June 28, 1864

    2 paragraphs1 min

Text of The Congressional Globe: Containing the Debates and Proceedings of the First Session of the Thirty-Eighth Congress (Washington: John C. Rives, 1864), read from OCR; the debates are given as reported, not always word for word.How this text was made

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