Paul Sorrells

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Mississippi petulantly refused to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, outlawing slavery. It did so only in 1995, 130 years after enough states had ratified it for it to take effect. Johnson had added to his requirements that the states repudiate their Confederate war debts, yet both Mississippi and South Carolina refused to do so.
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States)
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