Rare copies of both the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment will be auctioned off in Sotheby’s upcoming books and manuscripts sale on June 26 in New York. The 1863 proclamation originally ...

Jacobus tenBroek, Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: Consummation to Abolition and Key to the Fourteenth Amendment, 39 Calif. L. Rev. 171, 178 (1951) (quoting Cong ...

Chicagoans have the chance to see the original 13th Amendment along with other Civil War-era artifacts until Friday at Heritage Auctions Chicago, 222 W. Hubbard St. In honor of Black History Month ...

An original copy of the constitutional amendment that abolished slavery will make its first Virginia visit next weekend as part of Richmond's Civil War and Emancipation Day activities.