This is a much shorter document than the Emancipation Proclamation ... the Senate passed the 13th Amendment by a vote of 38-6 ...

and the tendency to view the Constitution as an almost sacred document that created an exceptional nation, are powerful but not always historically helpful ways to conceive of the 13th Amendment ...

The 13th Amendment freed slaves throughout the nation ... the date beside his signature on the document. On Feb. 9, 1865, the amendment was ratified by Virginia's Restored (loyal to the Union ...

(CBS DETROIT) - On this day in 1865, the House of Representatives passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution ... rebelled against the Union. This document did not free all enslaved people ...

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 ...

Slavery may sound like an issue of the past, but the topic was on the ballot in two states — California and Nevada — during the 2024 general election. As election results were coming in on Nov ...

the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United States, and sent it to states for ratification. This is a much shorter document than the ...