On This Day, 2006-Dec-18
December 18, 1865
The Thirteenth Amendment to the US constitution prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude.
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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