Amendment 13

AMENDMENT XIII

SECTION 1.

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.

SECTION 2.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

In simplest terms no form of slavery is legal and the congress have the power to enforce this law of the land

Are you surprised to know that though Lincoln signed the bill the republican party in fact voted to abolish slavery whilst the democratic party did not? Do you think race is favored on one side of today's democratic and republic parties or one more guilty then the other?

Though slavery is now abolished do you think it still has affects on today's society?