Slavery & the 13th Amendment by Kelsey Searcy

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Slavery & the 13th Amendment

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

THE 13TH AMENDMENT

Kelsey Searcy

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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.

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The 13th amendment was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864 and by the House on January 31 in 1865. The ratification (on December 6, 1865) came eight months after the end of the war, but it represented the culmination of the struggle against slavery.

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The need for the amendment was to end slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime.

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The purpose of the 13th Amendment was defeated
by the "Black Codes" of the South, which went
around the 13th Amendment to create unequal
circumstances for the North and South. The 13th amendment caused much controversy between the North and South. Black Codes, white supremacist violence, and selective enforcement of statutes continued to subject some black Americans to involuntary labor, particularly in the South.

Before the 13th amendment, many African-Americans were looked as if they were not human. It has changed culture today, but racism is still present. However, there is still slavery today in many different people groups in other countries.

Plessy vs. Ferguson was a major court case involved with the 13th amendment as well as the 14th and 15th. Plessy refused to sit on the segregated side on a train. He was arrested and charged.

Kelsey Searcy