This petition is to recognize December 6, 1865 as a National Holiday: Abolition Day. On this date, the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, officially abolishing slavery. This freed the remaining slaves from holdout slaver owners in Kentucky who had resisted abolition until this point. The last of the American slaves were finally free! Our education system barely taught us about the years and generations of immeasurable pain, torture, and dehumanization inflicted upon thousands of people in our own country. Sadly, most of us really learned about these years of atrocity by watching films like "Roots", and now "12 Years a Slave".
We commemorate the Holocaust, we commemorate 911. When will we commemorate the end of this scourge upon our nation's history? Let's do this!
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