CSPAN3 13th Amendment 150th Anniversary Ceremony December 30, 2015
I please remain standing as the chaplain of the house of the United States Patrick Conroy gives the convocation. Let us pray. Lord, god of mercy, we gather to remember an iconic moment in our history when millions of souls in american were declared to be freed men and women and slavery was forever formally banned from the United States of america by the adoption of the 13th amendment to the constitution. It was in advance in our evolving sense of those freedoms we have come to believe define us as a selfgoverning people. Unfortunately, the badges and incidents of slavery remained for decades. ...
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