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only got better from there with the
14th Amendment which gave all
citizens of the United States equal
protection of the laws and the 15th
amendment which gave African-
Americans the right to vote. It took
nearly two hundred years but the
instated, that slavery had come to African Americans were finally freed
a stop. With the war ending and on December 18, 1865.
the 13th Amendment adopted on
December 18, 1865, Slavery had
finally ended. The 13th Amendment
had officially abolished slavery and
freed all blacks from slavery. Things