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  2. 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.

  3. List of amendments to the Constitution of the United States

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    State ratifying conventions in three-fourths of the states. [3] The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol. [4]

  4. Reconstruction Amendments - Wikipedia

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    Text of the 13th Amendment. The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime. [6] It was passed by the U.S. Senate on April 8, 1864, and, after one unsuccessful vote and extensive legislative maneuvering by the Lincoln administration, the House followed suit on January 31, 1865. [7]

  5. 13th Amendment is least cited of Reconstruction revisions ...

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    With the stroke of a pen, President Lincoln freed about 3.4 million slaves in secessionist states. The Thirteenth Amendment has been cited in cases to end some forms of “badges or incidents of ...

  6. Penal exception clause - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime of which one has been convicted. [1] [2] In the latter 2010s, a movement has emerged to repeal the exception clause from both the federal and state constitutions.

  7. Peonage Act of 1867 - Wikipedia

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    The Peonage Abolition Act of 1867 was an Act passed by the U.S. Congress on March 2, 1867, that abolished peonage in the New Mexico Territory and elsewhere in the United States. Designed to help enforce the Thirteenth Amendment, the Act declares that holding any person to service or labor under the peonage system is unlawful and forever ...

  8. Thirteenth Amendment - Wikipedia

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    The Thirteenth Amendment may refer to the: Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution , which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India , established the Indian state of Nagaland

  9. History of unfree labor in the United States - Wikipedia

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    It lasted from the 15th through 19th centuries and was the largest legal form of unfree labor in the history of the United States, reaching 4 million slaves at its height. [citation needed] Slavery and involuntary servitude were made illegal through the thirteenth amendment, except as punishment for a crime. [1]