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The Thirteenth Amendment, about to be formally promulgated by the Executive Department of the Government, as incorporated in the Constitution, had made every negro a free man.
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Blaine highlights the significance of the Thirteenth Amendment in granting freedom to African Americans after the Civil War.
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