The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in ...

No Southern Democrats were represented ... wherein they agreed to end slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment also prohibited involuntary servitude, a catchall that encompassed several forms of labor ...

Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to reverse one outcome of the Civil War ...

One hundred and fifty years ago this month, the Thirteenth Amendment officially was ratified, and with it, slavery finally was abolished in America. The New York World hailed it as “one ...

With all the false elector schemes Trump's people pushed, no wonder he endorsed a Bible missing this part. 13th Amendment - Abolished Slavery This amendment formally abolished slavery in the ...

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According to HJR1002, the Arkansas Constitution "permits slavery and involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime" under Article 2, section 27. The amendment argues that "the Arkansas ...

The Thirteenth Amendment was intended to complete the destruction of slavery begun by the U.S. government ... “All persons are equal before the law, so that no person can hold another as a ...

Bianca Tylek, founder and executive director of Worth Rises, joins Karen Conti to talk about how inmates are being used to fight wildfires. They also discuss why prison activists say this violates the ...

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 ...

No Person held to Service or Labour ... pro-vision along with its declaration (presaging the Thirteenth Amendment) that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude” would exist in that territory.