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 amendment would overrule the Supreme Court’s disastrous decision to grant Trump immunity in the same way that the 13th and 14th Amendments overruled the Supreme Court’s disastrous Dred ...

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

The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, forever altering the American landscape. However, the full realization of its promises for American Freedmen (i.e. lineal ...

Top news of the day: Six dead, 116 arrested after Haryana communal violence; Supreme Court begins hearing petitions against abrogation of Article 370, and more ...

A Christian nun sings hymns as activists observe a minute silence in remembrance of victims of Sri Lanka’s civil war, at the ongoing anti-government protest site in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday ...

The Thirteenth Amendment is important because of its simplicity: Slavery of all forms for free persons was abolished. Of course, convicted prisoners were excepted.

The Reconstruction Congress enforced the 13th Amendment with the 1867 Anti-Peonage Act, prohibiting employers from requiring their workers to enter into contracts that bind them to their employers.

That possibility snapped into focus via a federal district judge’s order for briefing on whether a constitutional right to an abortion could yet be found not in the 14th Amendment, but in the 13th.

A federal judge indicated on Monday there could be an unseen constitutional right to abortion tucked away in the 13th Amendment, according to a court order that explored potentially unanswered ...