Hoptown ChronicleOpinion

Commentary: Let Kentuckians decide on outdated clause that keeps slavery in their Constitution

Section 23 of the state Constitution prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude “except as a punishment for a crime, whereof ...
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Lincoln and the politics of slavery the other Thirteenth Amendment and the struggle to save the union Daniel W. Crofts

Prologue : the bread pill -- The antebellum context. The abolition movement and the problem of the Constitution ; Antislavery politics and the problem of the constitution ; The Republican Party, ...
KCTV News

This Day in History: 13th Amendment is ratified, ending slavery in the U.S.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Dec 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment was ratified, ending slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States.
Mississippi State University

Frank and Virginia Williams Lecture Series on Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Studies: Lincoln and the Constitution: The 13th Amendment

Please join us for Lincoln and the Constitution: The 13th Amendment, a conversation between scholars. Guest scholars include Brandi C. Brimmer, the Morehead-Cain Alumni Associate Professor at the ...
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A look at the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments : slavery abolished, equal protection established / John Richard Conway

The United States Constitution was created to lay out the basic laws and principles of the Unites States. The Bill of Rights was added to ensure the basic human rights of American citizens. This book ...
Kentucky Lantern

Craig Berkman

Craig Berkman is founder and CEO of the Free at Last Coalition, which was formed to close the slavery loophole in the U.S. Constitution's 13th Amendment and complete the course begun by President ...