When did slavery end in the US?
It depends on how you define slavery. Slavery as forced employment, meaning you could not change jobs, ended with the civil war. The emancipation proclamation ended slavery in the states that Lincoln had no authority in ( those trying to secede). It really ended with the end of the civil war and the constitutional amendments that followed. However, labor laws in the US follow English Common Law, which pretty much sounds like slavery with the exception of the “Employment at Will” part. Basically you and the boss are under the same laws governing slaves and or servents. But you can quit and they can fire you. You can do neither when slavery is involved.
