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  2. End of slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The end of slavery effectively occurred with the federal Padrone Act of 1874 (18 Stat. 251), which was enacted on June 23, 1874, "in response to exploitation of immigrant children in forced begging and street crime by criminalizing the practice of enslaving, buying, selling, or holding any person in involuntary servitude."

  3. Slavery and the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    He does not owe and cannot owe service. He cannot even make a contract"; and that the clause giving Congress the power to "suppress Insurrections" (Article I, section 8) gives Congress the power to end slavery "[i]f it should turn out that slavery is a source of insurrection, [and] that there is no security from insurrection while slavery lasts

  4. Law of 4 February 1794 - Wikipedia

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    The National Convention declares slavery abolished throughout all the colonies: consequently, it decrees that all men, without distinction of color, domiciliated in the colonies, are French citizens, and entitled to the enjoyment of all the rights secured by the Constitution.

  5. Civil right acts in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Civil Rights Acts have been part of the Constitution of the United States of America, but in order to be received equally by all the population required to made amendments to the United States Constitution, this allowed to end of slavery with the Civil Rights Act of 1866, followed by women's suffrage, among other rights.

  6. Emancipation Proclamation - Wikipedia

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    Lincoln understood that the federal government's power to end slavery in peacetime was limited by the Constitution, which, before 1865, committed the issue to individual states. [19] During the Civil War, however, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation under his authority as " Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy" under Article II ...

  7. Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.The amendment was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House of Representatives on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the required 27 of the then 36 states on December 6, 1865, and proclaimed on December 18.

  8. The 14th Amendment was introduced to help racial justice ...

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    One abolished slavery. One allowed Black men to vote. And another, the 14th Amendment written by Ohio Congressman John Bingham, established birthright citizenship and was ratified in 1868.

  9. Reparations for slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Many argue that giving reparations for slavery is too complicated, but there is a strong basis for them on the past and current discrimination that blacks in America face. [ 63 ] [ 68 ] Ta-Nehisi Coates explains it in " The Case for Reparations " article in The Atlantic as "ninety years of Jim Crow , sixty years of separate but equal , and ...