<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware" id="mwew" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Delaware">Delaware</a> refuses to ratify the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_U.S._Constitution" id="mwfA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution">Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution</a>, delaying the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States" id="mwfQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Slavery in the United States">criminalization of slavery</a> until the amendment's national adoption on December 6, 1865.<sup about="#mwt103" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"}}' id="cite_ref-18" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_8#cite_note-18" id="mwfg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 18;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwfw">[18]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt107" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-19"}}' id="cite_ref-19" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_8#cite_note-19" id="mwgA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 19;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwgQ">[19]</span></a></sup> The amendment is ultimately ratified by Delaware on February 12, 1901, the 92nd anniversary of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" id="mwgg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln's</a> birth.<sup about="#mwt111" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-20"}}' id="cite_ref-20" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_8#cite_note-20" id="mwgw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 20;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwhA">[20]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt115" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-21"}}' id="cite_ref-21" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_8#cite_note-21" id="mwhQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 21;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwhg">[21]</span></a></sup>
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