Thirteenth Amendment

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Thirteenth_Amendment
GPTKB entity
Statements (23)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:constitutional_law
gptkbp:adoptedBy December 6, 1865
gptkbp:category gptkb:Reconstruction_Era
gptkb:1865_in_American_law
gptkb:United_States_slavery_law
gptkb:Abolitionism_in_the_United_States
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:enforcedBy gptkb:United_States_Congress
gptkbp:excludes punishment for crime
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:Fourteenth_Amendment
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Thirteenth Amendment
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:Reconstruction_Amendments
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Twelfth_Amendment
gptkbp:proposedBy gptkb:United_States_Congress
gptkbp:ratifiedBy 27 states (initially)
gptkbp:section 2
gptkbp:signedBy gptkb:Abraham_Lincoln
gptkbp:subject abolition of slavery
involuntary servitude
gptkbp:text 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.
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Constitution_of_the_United_States
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4