War had been fought over issues of States' rights, including the right to control the institution of slavery. The end of the English.Royal African Company's slave trade monopoly in. Royal African Company's slave trade monopoly in 1698 also made it easier for Maryland planters to obtain Africans. Emerson held the plaintiff in slavery at said Fort Snelling, from said lastmentioned date until the year 1838. The Thirteenth Amendment officially abolished slavery. The Fourteenth Amendment offered a significant bundle of citizenship rights. Disparities in arrest rates were carried forward into disparities in the people detained at the Baltimore City Jail (B-5315) on E. All other slave states followed when the 13th Amendment was ratified in 1865, which forever abolished slavery in the now reunited United States. He is for the time being the slave of the state.