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.

The 13th Amendment of the US Constitution makes an exception to the abolition of slavery in order to permit the use of “involuntary servitude” as punishment for a crime. The modern system of ...

America fought a Civil War where slavery was at the forefront. But, our United States, after the Civil War, had a plan in the 13th Amendment. Slavery, at least in the United States, would be ...

The lawyer went so far as to say that forced birth violates the 13th amendment, which prohibits slavery. "When undertaken willingly, childbearing can be a labor of love. But when states force this ...

(CBS DETROIT) - On this day in 1865, the House of Representatives passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery in the United States. When the Civil War began, President ...

McCormack said Vermont’s constitutional clause was “rendered moot by the national outlawing of slavery with the 13th Amendment” and argued that the proposition amounted to putting “a ...

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 ...