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Primary source: The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1865.
Caption: The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is one of the legacies of the Civil War.
Article 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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U.S. Constitution, amend. 13, at http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Amend.html.
Courtesy of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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