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Thirteenth Amendment
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Thirteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution

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  • John B. Henderson of Missouri, one of the Senate's youngest members, had previously demonstrated high courage by introducing the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery, simply because he was convinced that it would pass only if sponsored by a slave-state Senator, whose political death would necessarily follow.†  (source)
  • Lee had surrendered, Lincoln was dead, and Johnson and Congress were at loggerheads; the Thirteenth Amendment was adopted, the Fourteenth pending, and the Fifteenth declared in force in 1870.†  (source)
  • Note: A portion of Article IV, section 2, of the Constitution was superseded by the 13th amendment.†  (source)
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  • Such claim as he may have to be remembered as an Emancipator perhaps rests more justly on his behind-the-scenes activity for the thirteenth amendment than on the Proclamation itself.†  (source)
  • The champions of the bill argued that the strengthening of the Freedmen's Bureau was still a military necessity; that it was needed for the proper carrying out of the Thirteenth Amendment, and was a work of sheer justice to the ex-slave, at a trifling cost to the government.†  (source)
  • Such a system is impossible in the more civilized parts of the South, or near the large towns and cities; but in those vast stretches of land beyond the telegraph and the newspaper the spirit of the Thirteenth Amendment is sadly broken.†  (source)
  • When the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, slavery remained legal only in Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, and New Jersey.†
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