The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except for punishment for a crime for which the defendant has been convicted. Congress was given the power to ...
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – As people across the country celebrated Juneteenth, some question whether or not lawmakers in 1865 actually intended to abolish enslavement. Juneteenth commemorates the ...
It was Jan. 31, 1865, John Ganson was sitting in Congress waiting for the roll call to approve the 13th Amendment. The Senate had passed the Amendment on April 8, 1864. Ganson, who was born in Le Roy, ...
December 18 marks the anniversary of a pivotal moment in American history—one that decisively reshaped the nation. On this date in 1865, Secretary of State William H. Seward issued a formal ...
The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, forever altering the American landscape. However, the full realization of its promises for American Freedmen (i.e. lineal ...
ST. LOUIS – On this day 160 years ago, Missouri Senator John Brooks Henderson introduced what would become the 13th Amendment of the constitution, abolishing slavery. It said, “Slavery or involuntary ...
Prologue : the bread pill -- The antebellum context. The abolition movement and the problem of the Constitution ; Antislavery politics and the problem of the constitution ; The Republican Party, ...
"Published on the occasion of the seventeenth Lincoln Prize awarded by the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College, April 30, 2007." ...
Congressional Democrats want to amend a section of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, to end what they refer to as another form of slavery -- forced prison labor. Congressional Democrats ...
Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Thirteenth Amendment ...
Paul G. Summers, a lawyer, is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the ...
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