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 ...

In my last post, I described the general nature and theory behind the collection, "The Reconstruction Amendments: Essential Documents," (2… ...

We shall continue our study of the Constitution in the next article about Amendment XIV, ratified by the States in 1868. Reading and studying the Constitution are times well spent.

In 1865, the U.S. House of Representatives joined the Senate in passing the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution outlawing slavery.

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 ...

On Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, and by it, he declared that “all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are and henceforward ...

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 ...

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

[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 The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.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 ...

Hodges v. United States is a 1906 U.S. Supreme Court case that overturned the convictions of three white men who were convicted in 1903 of conspiring to prevent a group of Black workers from ...