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 The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.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

Opinion: 13th Amendment has been cited to address what we consider modern forms of slavery, i.e., sex trafficking, bondage or aggravated kidnapping.

Even the United States Constitution is not immune to edits. The document has had plenty of amendments over the years, some granting important rights.

Griffin paid a record $13.7M for the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation. Both documents were ...

W ashington 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.

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 ...

Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...

The effort is part of a national push to amend the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution that banned enslavement or involuntary servitude except as a form of criminal punishment.

Richard Rosado, Commissioner of Police "This is why I believe that I want to beg, I want to implore on the public to support the police department, to stand with the police department as a united ...

This week marks the 160th anniversary of the passage of the 13th Amendment. Congress , dominated by free state Republicans after the secession of slaveholding states, worked for 18 months to ...

The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude—except as punishment for a crime. This so-called "Except Clause" has long been used to justify forced ...