Mississippi Finally Gets Around to Outlawing Slavery

147 years later, Mississippi has finally ratified the 13th Amendment. Ranhan Batra, the associate professor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, noticed that while Mississippi had ratified the amendment locally, the local government had never formally notified the U.S. archivist. Apparently, the bill had never been sent to the Office of the Federal Register, thus leaving the amendment unlawful in Mississippi for close to 150 years. Technically, slave ownership has been legal in Mississippi for the last 150 years. The state finally received notification on Feb. 7 from the Federal Register that they had officially ratified the 13th Amendment. 

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/02/19/mississippi-finally-ratifies-the-amendment-to-ban-slavery-148-years-later/