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the 13th amendment. and what did you discover? i discovered much to my surprise that o well, the firt surprise was that mississippi had not actually ratified it. the legislature had not ratified it until 1995. which was you know a century and a quarter after the bill became law. but i was glad they ratified it. but then, much to my surprise i found out that even then it was not official, because that information had not been transmitted to the national archives. so in point of fact, we still were not on the books as having ratified the 13th amendment in abolishing slavery. and ken sullivan, how did you get involved? did batra approached me in the hallway and had a question one morning and asked me about this amendment and if i knew it had never been ratified by mississippi. and i said, well, i believe it

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