History is more than what we learn in textbooks—it’s a living, breathing narrative that continues to shape the present. There ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

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 ...

While Kentucky does ban slavery, it carves out an exception for one group of people - people convicted of a crime. The ...

And such is the case with the 14th Amendment, especially Section 1.

There was also no assurance against slavery beginning in states and territories ... when the Senate passed a predecessor of the 13th Amendment. However, the House of Representatives rejected ...

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 ...

During the six and a half years Savvy Shabazz spent incarcerated in nine Kentucky institutions, he worked for as little as 63 ...

Saying it is well past time for Kentucky to remove a slavery exception from its constitution, state Rep. George A. Brown, Jr.

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