Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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gptkb:Abraham_Lincoln
gptkb:Ulysses_S._Grant
gptkbp:castIncludes Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude
except as a punishment for crime
gptkbp:celebratedIn Juneteenth
gptkbp:citedBy court cases
gptkbp:contributedTo social justice
gptkbp:controversy gptkb:Congress
gptkbp:court Supreme_Court_rulings
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political debates
gptkbp:enactedBy State legislatures
December 6, 1865
January 31, 1865
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gptkbp:historicalSignificance end of legal slavery
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
gptkbp:impact African_American_rights
gptkbp:influenced social movements
international human rights law
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gptkbp:influencedBy Emancipation Proclamation
abolitionist movements
gptkbp:inspiration subsequent civil rights legislation
gptkbp:legalStatus freedom for enslaved people
gptkbp:opposedBy Southern Democrats
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Reconstruction Amendments
American_history
American_legal_framework
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gptkb:Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
human rights
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
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gptkbp:supportedBy Abolitionists