Amendment XIII

Neither slavery nor involuntary solitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

This Amendment was what abolished all slavery in the United States. We have talked about in our class about Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address which only abolished slavery in the Northern states. 




This picture is more of a statement of slave hands breaking free from slavery, which is shown through hands breaking the shackles on their hands.

This video explains more of what happened after the 13th Amendment and how it pertained to former slave's lives.