Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well ...

By late 1812, a total of 12 states had approved the 13th Amendment and ironically, it needed a 13th state to become ratified. As the War of 1812 escalated, the TONA faded away as an issue and was ...

Opinion: 13th Amendment has been cited to address what we consider modern forms of slavery, i.e., sex trafficking, bondage or aggravated kidnapping.

The first of two volumes on constitutional reconstruction presents the antebellum struggle to determine whether the Constitution was a pro-slavery or anti-slavery document, the passage of two ...

W ashington D.C. (WHTM) On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United States, and sent it to states for ratification.

At the time of the Confederate states’ secession, Congress was considering an amendment to the Constitution (known as the Corwin Amendment) to make clear that it was not allowed to interfere with any ...

In 1940, 75 years after the 13th Amendment was issued, a “Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the Proclamation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States” called “75 ...

Even so, it's a little startling to come upon section 7.19, which calls for "the reintroduction and ratification of the original 13th Amendment, not the 13th amendment in today's Constitution." ...

When the States have ratified the proposed amendment, then it becomes part of the Constitution. One or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by Congress…” to the states. Paul G. Summers ...

[1.] The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. [2.] The transportation or importation into any State,Territory, or possession of the United ...