Often overshadowed by President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, the Thirteenth Amendment officially codified the ...

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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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The Second Amendment gives us the right to bear arms. The 13th Amendment is commonly thought to have abolished slavery. My first two examples certainly deserve more nuance, but my third example – ...

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The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, abolishing slavery, was ratified as Georgia became the 27th state to endorse it. 1907: The worst mining disaster in U.S.