Ending nearly a century and a half of oppression, the state of Mississippi has finally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery, a piece of legislation that was introduced to—or some might argue, forced upon—the state by the movie Lincoln, apparently. As some scholars who maybe saw a movie about ratifications or whatever already know, the Thirteenth Amendment was originally ratified by three-fourths of the nation in 1865, though Mississippi remained unconvinced until just recently, determined to wait and see how this whole “Reconstruction” thing panned out. In 1995, Mississippi finally voted to ratify the amendment for fear of seeming socially backward, yet it “accidentally” forgot to make that vote official by notifying the U.S. Archivist. Their “clerical oversight” finally came to light after Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln arrived pushing reform, and using its executive power to promote a progressive agenda of bringing the States into the late-19th century.