Keywords: AdoptionOf13thAmendment.jpg Thirteenth Amendment 1865-02-18 http //archive org/details/harpersweeklyv9bonn Internet Archive Harper's Weekly 18 February 1865 PD-old Also reproduced by Michael Vorenberg in Final Freedom 2001 Vorenberg writes For a moment there was only a disbelieving hollow silence Then the House exploded in cheers Members threw their hats to the roof caught them and smashed them against their desks Charles Douglass wrote to his father abolitionist Frederick Douglass I wish that you could have been here Such rejoicing I never before witnessed white people I mean PD-US Uploaded with UploadWizard Emancipation Harper's Weekly United States Congress February 1865 in Washington D C 1865 works in the United States |