Thirteenth Amendment
Americannoun
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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
The so-called “convict clause,” the legal exception for prison slavery, originated with the Northwest Ordinance, applying to territories claimed northwest of the Ohio River, and was carried forward in the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2023
“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
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
In early 1863, the war was going badly in the North and it was not clear that the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution—which abolished slavery—would pass Congress and be ratified by the states.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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