New England Patriots 2015 schedule. The New England Patriots start of their Super Bowl defense with a prime time Thursday night game against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Foxborough.
Quatr.us > America > People > Reconstruction. April 2016 - During the Civil War, in 1863 AD, President Lincoln announced the end of slavery. When the North won the war, in 1865, Congress and the states voted to change the Constitution to make slavery illegal, so all the people who were slaves in the South became free. Some people chose to leave the plantations, now that they were free.
Slavery was officially abolished in the US by means of the 13th amendment to the constitution, which was enacted in 1865. Since it is now 2013 (as I type) that was 148 years aâ¦go. No one who was a slave in 1865 is still living today. 4 people found this useful.