13TH AMENDMENT

The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

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• January 31, 1865
• Abraham Lincoln
• April 9, 1865

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

• Southern States didn't accept the northern laws
• Plessy sat in wrong seat on train

WORKS CITED

• http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html
• http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/antebellum/landmark_plessy.html