An animated Lincoln gives an AI-generated speech calling for an end to unpaid prison labor, which is allowed because of a clause in the 13th Amendment. America’s history of slavery shouldn’t ...

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

Had three-quarters of states ratified this proposal, it would have become the 13th Amendment to the Constitution — which we know today as the amendment that banned slavery after the war.

This week marks the 160th anniversary of the passage of the 13th Amendment. Congress, dominated by free state Republicans after the secession of slaveholding states, worked for 18 months to secure ...

But, our United States, after the Civil War, had a plan in the 13th Amendment. Slavery, at least in the United States, would be abolished forever. Three Reconstruction Amendments were passed and ...

"The 13th Amendment abolished slavery for all intents and purposes, but slavery still continues," said Rep. George Brown, Jr. "We are still enslaving people in the year 2025 and that's something ...

FILE - This Nov. 29, 2011, file photo shows the signature of president Abraham Lincoln on a rare, restored copy of the 13th Amendment that ended slavery, in Chicago. National lawmakers are expected on ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - The United States abolished slavery except as a punishment of a crime in 1865 with the ratification of the 13th Amendment. Nevada‘s Constitution also still includes that ...