Well, it's about time!

As movie-goers watch Daniel Day Lewis' critically acclaimed reenactment of the passing of the 13th Amendment following Abraham Lincoln's historical legal battle to end slavery during the Civil War, few realized that it was never officially abolished in Mississippi, Breaking Celebrity News is reporting.

The Southern state finally ratified the amendment earlier this month by a string of events directly inspired by the Oscar-nominated film Lincoln, when Dr. Ranjan Batra, an associate professor of neurobiology and anatomical sciences at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, returned from the movie theater and wondered what happened when the states voted on ratification.