13th Amendment
Slavery's constitutional end
The 13th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for crime.
This exception has allowed prison labor systems that critics argue perpetuate forms of forced labor.
The amendment marked the first of three Reconstruction Amendments following the Civil War.
The 13th Amendment ended legal slavery in America.
- AbolitionismMovement to end slavery
- Emancipation ProclamationExecutive order freeing Confederate slaves
- Civil WarCountrymen fighting countrymen
- Radical RepublicansStrict Reconstruction-era congressional bloc
- Reconstruction EraPost-secession national mending period
Abraham Lincoln · chain gang · Freedmen's Bureau · Underground Railroad · Juneteenth · Haitian Revolution · prison labor · Federalism · Voting Rights Act
- Reconstructionfreedmen, Freedmen's Bureau, carpetbaggers, scalawags, Radical Republicans
- Civil War aftermathfreedmen, Reconstruction, sharecropping, Jim Crow, carpetbaggers
- legal historylegal history, medieval law, Roman law, Roman jurisprudence, common law
- Rights LawsBill of Rights, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, UN Charter, ADA
- slaverychattel slavery, enslaved, slave, enslavement, slave traders
- Gilded AgeGilded Age, robber baron, robber barons, Carnegie, Rockefeller
13th AmendmentFugitive Slave Act
Law mandating escapee return
Dred Scott decision · slave codes · Code Noir · chattel slavery · convict leasing
13th AmendmentJim Crow laws
Post-Reconstruction racial separation statutes
Chinese Exclusion Act · Plessy v. Ferguson · disenfranchisement · Indian Removal Act
13th AmendmentMiddle Passage
Transatlantic slave trade crossing
slave auctions · Missouri Compromise · Compromise of 1850 · Kansas-Nebraska Act
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