is not recognized under the Thirteenth Amendment. In the view of its congressional framers, the comprehensive sweep of the abolition amendment was balanced by its libertarian purpose. The scope of ...

For one thing, it only abolished slavery in the Confederate ... the Senate passed the 13th Amendment by a vote of 38-6 and ...

Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

On April 14, 1775, the first organization dedicated to the abolition of slavery in North America was founded in Philadelphia.

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