Here's an OMG fact for you: The Kentucky legislature didn't go on record
against slavery until 1976 — 111 years after the 13th Amendment
prohibiting involuntary servitude became the law of the land. "Lincoln,"
with 12 nominations at tonight's Academy Awards ceremony, tells of the
president's struggle to have Congress pass the amendment. What isn't
told is that Kentucky, Lincoln's birthplace, refused to ratify the
amendment. Mississippi was another; more on that later.
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