13th+Amendment+5



13th Amendement ** "Neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude exacept as a punshiment of crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
 * Ratified on December 6, 1865.
 * The Thirteenth Amendment offically abolished and continues to prohibit slavery with limited exceptions, such as those who convicted crime, prohibits involuntary servitude.
 * April 1864 the Senate passed it but the House did not.
 * Abraham Lincoln took an active role garrenteed passage through congress.
 * Insisted that it be added to the republican party platform for the upcoming elections.
 * It was a solution to the slavery issue in great success
 * House passed the bill in January 1865
 * Congress had passed the 13th amendment to guarantee the legality and perpetuity of slavery in the slave states in rather then to end it.

**[|**http://www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?page=privacy**] http://www.greatamericanhistory.net/amendment.htm
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