Thirteenth Amendment
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The United States has made momentous strides toward improving protections and conditions for workers since the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified in 1865.
From Salon • Jun. 19, 2024
“Of those provisions that might contain some right to access to such services,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote, “the Thirteenth Amendment has received substantial attention among scholars and, briefly, in one federal Court of Appeals decision.”
From Slate • Feb. 8, 2023
The Thirteenth Amendment, which banned slavery, explicitly excludes incarcerated persons and allows governments to require them to perform labor without compensation.
From Salon • Dec. 11, 2022
This was viewed as the core, and these ideas were central to, the abolitionist critique of slavery that helped change the Constitution and led first to the Thirteenth Amendment, and then to the Fourteenth.
From Slate • Apr. 12, 2022
Garfield also pushed for passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery, a change in the Constitution favored by Lincoln and the Republican Party.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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