National Freedom Day in the United States

" There should be no slavery or forced labor.On February 1, 1865, President Lincoln signed a congressional resolution to amend the 13th American Constitution to abolish slavery.

The Congressional Resolution on the 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery read: “Neither in the United States, nor in any other place to which their authority extends, shall there be any slavery or servitude, except in cases of punishment for a crime for which the guilty must be duly convicted.”

National Freedom Day

Since then, this date has been celebrated as National Freedom Day.