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Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
On the 18th of June 1866, both houses of Congress passed a concurrent resolution requesting President Andrew Johnson to transmit the Fourteenth Amendment…
Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
In the final years of the American Civil War, Congress repeatedly debated the rights of millions of black freedmen. By 1869, amendments had been passed to…
Reconstruction Amendments
Thomas Nast's the 12th of January 1867 illustration for Harper's Weekly declared slavery dead with a single stroke of ink.
Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The United States Constitution of 1787 contained no word for slave or slavery, yet it embedded the institution into the nation's legal DNA.
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