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13th Amendment and Reconstruction

The 13th Amendment to the US Constitution, which abolished slavery, and the subsequent Reconstruction policies and their impact on the rights of freedpeople in the United States.

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How did Republican wartime and Reconstruction policies translate into the 13th Amendment process?

wartime measures—most visibly the and the party’s 1864 platform—created the political momentum and constitutional rationale that drove to draft and pass the as a permanent national abolition of slaver...