75th Anniversary of the 13th Amendment

United States · 1940 · 3¢

The stamp features the Emancipation Memorial sculpture by Thomas Ball, depicting Abraham Lincoln with a kneeling freed slave. Text on the stamp reads "FREEDOM TO THE SLAVES" and "75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 13TH AMENDMENT".

Issued in 1940, this stamp commemorates the 75th anniversary of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which formally abolished slavery in the United States. It highlights a pivotal moment in American civil rights history.