Mississippi Becomes Last State to Ratify 13th Amendment   After
what’s being seen as an “oversight” by the state of Mississippi,
the Southern territory has become the last state to consent to
the 13th Amendment—officially abolishing slavery.  It’s been 150
years since Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation
Proclamation—abolishing slavery in the United States—and 148
years since the 13th Amendment was passed, but somehow, the
state of Mississippi failed to ratify the law, which states,
“Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as
a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly
convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place
subject to their jurisdiction. Section 2. Congress shall have
power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”
According to the New York Post, Mississippi resident and
professor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Dr.
Ranjan Batra, watched DreamWorks SKG’s film, Lincoln, and got to
thinking.  “Batra returned home and s