Mississippi Negress hoeing cotton, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange. # 2896757

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Mississippi Negress hoeing cotton. She was born a slave "two years before the surrender". [General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate troops to Ulysses S. Grant, leader of the Union Army, at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on 9 April 1865, marking the beginning of the end of the American Civil War. The Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery except as punishment for a crime, had been passed by the Senate in April 1864, and by the House of Representatives in January 1865].

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