An Abraham Lincoln–signed copy of the 13th Amendment, as well as a copy of the Emacipation Proclamation, are heading to ...

Someone will get a chance to own two literal pieces of American history. The post Documents that Lincoln signed to end ...

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. At this point in time, the American Civil ...

Two era-defining documents that ended slavery and reshaped American history are to be auctioned. The Thirteenth Amendment ...

The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued as Union troops ...

In this new era of Jane Crow, the right to choose is not only a question of bodily autonomy in life, but even in death.

Here is a look at Juneteenth, the oldest known US celebration of the end of slavery. On June 19, 1865, over two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, enslaved African ...

A UChicago legal scholar examines how forced labor persists in U.S. prisons—and what it will take to change the system ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives ... it’s hard to see how the Civil War and the abolition of slavery did not remake the United ...

The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except for punishment for a crime for which the defendant has been convicted. Congress was given the power to ...

Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except for punishment for a crime for which the defendant ...