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148 years

Source: The (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger | Mississippi | February 21, 2013



The time it took Mississippi to ratify the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery. It became the last state to do so this month after the movie "Lincoln" inspired a professor to look into why it had not.

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