are powerful but not always historically helpful ways to conceive of the 13th Amendment and the other two Reconstruction amendments. While slavery did not create the American republic, the ...

The essay introducing the drafting of the Thirteenth Amendment ... such courses on the history of the Reconstruction Amendments at American Law Schools—at least prior to the publication of ...

The Reconstruction Congress enforced the 13th Amendment with the 1867 Anti-Peonage Act ... competition and hurt workers by suppressing the wages of as many as 30 million American workers. The agency ...

The Thirteenth Amendment was submitted for ... especially in the American South. One massive debate during reconstruction was, what would happen to all those recently defeated former Confederates?