A UChicago legal scholar examines how forced labor persists in U.S. prisons—and what it will take to change the system ...

Had three-quarters of states ratified this proposal, it would have become the 13th Amendment to the Constitution ... of New York and author of the book “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives ... author of the 1989 book Battle Cry of Freedom, which is perhaps still the single best history ...

The penalty has remained on the books in more than a dozen states ... one day lead to the removal of such language from the 13th Amendment altogether, though some argue that the movement ...

He received a JD from Duke University and is the author of two books on the Supreme Court ... And that leaves open the possibility that the Thirteenth Amendment, which prohibits “slavery ...

Washington D.C. (WHTM) On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended ...

Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except for punishment for a crime for which the defendant ...