The 13th Amendment, passed in truly extraordinary circumstances, through extraordinary men, by extraordinary means, secured the political viability of the anti-slavery revolution. People shouldn ...

Often overshadowed by President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, the Thirteenth Amendment officially codified the abolition of slavery into United States law in 1865. The first of the ...

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject ...

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While the 13th Amendment ended slavery in the United States, a loophole allows people convicted of crimes to be forced to work for public or private enterprises. In this case, those tasked with ...

The language from Kentucky's constitution comes from the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which also allows for slavery as punishment for a crime. House Bill 121, a proposed constitution ...