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.
After a long pause in amendments, we finally passed one that is unquestionable good. It is clear and should have been there from the beginning. The Union had won, and the Abolitionist movement had finally succeeded in their goals
What this means is that from that day on, we could have a lot more pride in our country not being comprised of hypocrites. Christians shouldn't have ever been able to tolerate slavery. Secular "free thinkers" should have never been about to tolerate slavery. It never should have happened. Although it was a long road to try to get us to true racial harmony, the thirteenth amendment was the greatest step in that direction.
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