As people across the country celebrated Juneteenth, some question whether or not lawmakers in 1865 actually intended to ...

On Jan. 31, 1865, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery in the U.S. The amendment states, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude ...

An Abraham Lincoln–signed copy of the 13th Amendment, as well as a copy of the Emacipation Proclamation, are heading to ...

Beginning with the narrative and case of Harriet Robinson Scott, as background to Dred Scott ... serve as incentive to reimplement the Thirteenth Amendment to find solutions and social redress ...

Slavery in the United States was officially abolished on December 6, 1865, with the ratification of the 13th Amendment after it was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865. The amendment declares ...

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 ...

The Abolition Amendment would finally finish the job started by the Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, and 13 th Amendment by correcting this historic constitutional loophole and sending a ...

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., suggested Monday that there may be a constitutional right to abortion baked into the 13th Amendment — an area she said went unexplored by the Supreme Court ...

A group of Democratic lawmakers has reintroduced a joint resolution to negate a clause in the 13th Amendment of the Constitution that permits slavery or involuntary servitude “as a punishment ...

Our Abolition Amendment brings us one step closer to achieving true justice and equality for all by eliminating the loophole in the 13th Amendment that allows for slavery. “This Slavery Clause ...