Freedom Confirmed

Inspirational Educational Commemorative

On January 1, 1863, the final Emancipation Proclamation was a motion to end and/or agitate chattel slavery in rebellious slave states that seceded from the United States of America.

On April 8, 1864, the U.S. Senate passed bill S. 123 to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude.
On January 31, 1865, the U.S. House of Representatives passed bill H.R. 14 to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude.
On February 1, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Congressional joint resolution to abolish slavery and end involuntary servitude in the United States of America.

On December 6, 1865, freedom confirmed became official after the state of Georgia approved the joint resolution to abolish slavery and end involuntary servitude in the United States of America.
On December 18, 1865, the U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward issued the proclamation that the 13th Amendment had been ratified to the Constitution of the United States of America.

In the 1800's, there was an emerging civil rights movement that involved many European American men and women corroborating with free and enslaved African American men and women to end chattel slavery. This type of social interaction established the framework for social justice around freedom for all African Americans and the beginning of unified-diversity in the United States of America. Unified-diversity is unconditional support, nondiscriminatory practices, and positive engagement within the social context of race, gender, age, religion, political party, disability, and/or sexual orientation. Literally, free Americans risked their own lives and freedom to end the social injustice and political degradation of the racial enslavement system in the United States of America.