To place slave emancipation on a secure constitutional footing, Congress proposed on January 31, 1865, to abolish slavery by constitutional amendment. Ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment ...

This story is part of an occasional series on research projects currently in the works at the Law School. The Thirteenth ...

For one thing, it only abolished slavery in the Confederate states ... the Senate passed the 13th Amendment by a vote of 38-6 ...

Lincoln came late to the campaign for a thirteenth amendment that would abolish slavery. Instead, he argued for gradual emancipation, one state at a time, coupled with federal funds granted to ...

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