The 13th amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery in 1865.
Slavery had been abolished in the British Empire since The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, and 13th Amendment to the constitution abolished slavery in the United States in 1864. Therefore in answer to your question, there was no slavery in 1870.
Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, December 1865.
In the United States, freedom was granted to all slaves who could escape to the Union by the Emancipation Proclamation,. Although slavery was not abolished in the North until after the Civil War by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which ended slavery in the United States.Pennsylvania effectively ended Slavery north of the famous Mason Dixon Line by 1847.Northern slavery was completely abolished on Dec.6th, 1865 by the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution.
1867 with the civil war amendments of 13,14, and 15 added to the constitution.
With the 13th amendment to the Constitution,
The US Constitution did not initially abolish slavery. In fact it made it clear that for the next twenty years after ratification of the Constitution no law could be passed eliminating slavery and no amendment could be passed to eliminate the constitutional provision that protected slavery for twenty years. The Bill of Rights (technically part of the Constitution) did abolish slavery however. Slavery does still exist in the world today in the form of Human Trafficking.
Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Slavery was officially abolished in the United States on December 6, 1865, with the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.
Slavery was officially abolished in Argentina in 1813. The passage of the Argentine Constitution in 1853 further solidified the abolition of slavery in the country.
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This is the amendment that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
The 13th amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery in 1865.
Missouri abolished slavery on January 11, 1865 by adopting an amendment to its state constitution.