1995-03-17 04:00:00 PDT Jackson, Miss. -- After 130 years, Mississippi voted yesterday to ratify the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery. Without debate, the state House unanimously approved a resolution that previously had won unanimous passage in the Senate.

Of the 36 states in the union when the 13th Amendment was ratified in 1865 at the end of the Civil War, Mississippi was the lone holdout. At the time, state lawmakers were angry that they had not been reimbursed for the value of freed slaves. Mississippi will notify Congress of the vote, and it will be noted in congressional records.