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Weren't both of these problems addressed by congress, not the courts?

I don't think that slavery and fiddly details of how regulations are interpreted are really comparable. Morally or practically.

What?? Slavery was ended (outsidr of prison system) by a law change.

What??? Slavery was ended by crushing the south in the civil war.

What??? Slavery was still legal in the North until the 13th amendment.

proc95 wasn't limited to the south.

Yes it was.

> That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, *the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States*, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.

Slavery was legal in the border states until passage of the 13th Amendment.

It exempted some of the states that remained in the North. Delaware is an example of a Union state that had slavery until the 13th amendment.