Abolition Day

It's the most significant day in Black American history December 6,1865 the legal ending of chattel slavery It was 157 years ago When they finally let God's people go In the year 1619 was when it all started Africans from the Motherland were permanently parted And when in 1787 the US Constitution came to be The southern states now wanted the slaves To be considered more than property Hence there was a compromise to that plan Black slaves would be denoted as 3/5 of a man But in 1810 an alarming trend America would then see The slave population started growing exponentially Also there were now many free Blacks as well Who were educating the slaves and causing all kinds of hell So in 1830 the white Americans enacted a law That teaching slaves to read would be no more But they didn't stop at that they came at the Black preachers too To stop them from giving knowledge and preaching the gospel truth The Abolitionist movement in America was then born This mighty democratic republic then became torn The Dred Scott Decision to Blacks was a devastating blow Until Abe Lincoln came into power to now run the show 11 southern states abdicated and the Confederacy came to fruition A Civil War erupted in defiance of the US Constitution The Emancipation Proclamation was then handed down Lincoln said I'm president and this conflict over slavery stops now And in 1864 the 13th Amendment was drafted and enacted It ended slavery with a lot of southern dissatisfaction Abolitionists went to Congress on January 31,1865 To make sure that Amendment in session would not be passed by Yet it took almost an entire year for enough states to ratify Then legally & federally slavery in America did die 4 million plus Black Americans were now legally free Abolition Day a momentous day in Black American history