Washington 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.

Slavery became illegal when the 13th Amendment was adopted in 1865, but Prigg has been most often cited in the decades ...

Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

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She also made it clear where she wanted the parties to direct their search, suggesting that the 13th Amendment, which prohibits “slavery” and “involuntary servitude” might protect a right ...