<Li> North Carolina--December 4, 1865 </Li> <Li> Georgia--December 6, 1865 </Li> <P> Having been ratified by the legislatures of three - fourths of the several states (27 of the 36 states, including those that had been in rebellion), Secretary of State Seward, on December 18, 1865, certified that the Thirteenth Amendment had become valid, to all intents and purposes, as a part of the Constitution . Included on the enrolled list of ratifying states were the three ex-Confederate states that had given their assent, but with strings attached . Seward accepted their affirmative votes and brushed aside their interpretive declarations without comment, challenge or acknowledgment . </P> <P> The Thirteenth Amendment was subsequently ratified by: </P>

When did the states ratify the 13th amendment