Depends on where you count. If you include the Emancipation proclamation it would be 1862, but that was only for slaves in the states that were in rebellion. The 3 amendments of the Constitution that address this and citizenship rights are the 13, 14, 15th amendments were passed in 1867.
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1865
The slaves held in the United States were officially, fully, and irrefutably set free with the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. However, this did not mean that the conditions for the former slaves improved in many areas.
Since the US became independent of Britain as a result of the Revolutionary War, Britain did not come to set slaves free in America. It was not until after the Civil War that the slaves were freed by constitutional amendment.
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They disarmed the slaves, and exercised tighter control #PlatoTho