The Pros And Cons Of The 13th Amendment

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During the span of thirty years from 1865 to 1895 blacks that lived within this time frame went through arguably the most profound series of events to occur in African American history. Southern blacks were faced with prejudice, bondage, slavery, and ultimately survival. Shortly after the thirteenth amendment was ratified, stating that: “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.”

Issued by Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation set all slaves, under Confederate control, free, and armed black troops for the Civil War. A year later, beginning in September of 1864, Maryland, Tennessee, Missouri, and Louisiana abolished slavery. Shortly after, approved by Congress in February of 1865 and ratified in December, the Thirteenth Amendment was official. This amendment abolished slavery throughout the entire Union, which finally freed Kentucky and Delaware slaves. The war started as a fight to preserve the Union, but the new amendment went to show that the war had shifted to a fight to end slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment resulted in the abolition of slavery permanently. Although this freedom did not mean equality. Northern African Americans had been battling for their civil rights before and after the war. They were petitioning and campaigning at the state level, and created the National Convention of Colored Men and the National Rights League at the national level. None of these had as big of an impact as when the Radical republicans in Congress got involved to help overturn the inequalities.

Argument found in 13th: The mass increase of population in prison systems is a continuation of slavery that allegedly ended in 1865.

The Fifteenth Amendment granted black men to vote. Put emphasis on men because at this time women still couldn't vote.This amendment would not be fully followed until almost a century. What the government did was that they made a literacy test so difficult that no slave could pass because they had no education. So no blacks could vote really for a long time. So to loop their loophole that made a rule called the Grandfather Clause. This made if your grandfather could vote you did not have to take the literacy test. So every white person's grandfather could vote since they lived in england. So this rule did not apply to blacks since their grandfathers were black and could not vote. One of the main reasons that they made this rule is because

Argument found in 13th: 13th states a problem about our 13th amendment claiming that everyone is free to their freedom but in all reality African Americans are still being targeted and put in prisons and treated like slaves for no reason.

Slavery is alive in the United States of America; it’s just morphed to fit itself into modern times. Every time I see the text of the 13th Amendment, I wonder if that little caveat was intentional or just really naïve.

In the 1860s, the north and the south fought against each other over the long-standing controversy over slavery. At the end of the Civil War, the 13th amendment abolish slavery and slaves were free from their masters. The ex-slaves were free, but it would take some time for them to gain equal rights. Former slaves faced obstacles for equal rights like voting and segregation for nearly a century. Although the 14th and 15th amendments helped blacks with equal rights, there was no one to blaze a trail for blacks until Martin Luther King Jr. came along. Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights activist and became a figurehead during the Civil Rights Movement for his peaceful protests. Martin Luther King Jr. peacefully stood against racial

As expressed in the United States Constitution, “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.", which finally got rid of slavery. Subjection was currently gone in the decision of law. In any case, subjection still ruled it's fear all through The South. In the political perspective, The Thirteenth Amendment just changed the composed law. The appropriation of The Thirteenth Amendment was the start of a the privileges of all in the United States. Notwithstanding, The Amendment prompted political contradictions and changes in the years going before. The Thirteenth was a defining moment in American history, driving society to change their perspectives on how they see African Americans, and different races. The Amendment changed subjection, yet in actuality nothing truly changed until the mid-twentieth

James Madison, primary author of the Bill or Rights and a Representative, introduced 20 amendments on June 8, 1789. The House of Representatives passed 17 amendments, and then they were sent to the Senate for approval. The Senate in turn altered the 17 amendments into 12 articles. During the 1789 Joint Resolution of Congress, Congress agreed on the 12 amendments. It was then necessary that three-fourths of the states formulated their approval. At that moment, the tenth amendment was previously numbered as the twelfth article. However, since two of the articles were not ratified, the remaining articles were then renumbered and thus, the Tenth Amendment was born on December 15, 1791 with its inclusion in the Bill of Rights.

Following the beginning of the Civil War while Abraham Lincoln was positioned president, a strategy to preserve the Union during the Civil War allowed Blacks to fight besides whites. Thou President Abraham Lincoln always despised slavery; he knew that most of the world did not find the act of humane imprisonments abhorrent. Abating his own personal feelings and morals concerning slavery, Abraham Lincoln did not decide to push forward the abolishment of slavery at that time. As the war progressed and thousands of slaves joined the northern armies in battle in mid-1862, Abraham Lincoln was convinced that the abolition of slavery was now a sound military strategy. (__) As the war continued to use slaves in battle and successfully having won the Union Victory at the Battle of Antietam in Maryland, President Abraham Lincoln announced the

If we look for a second at the U.S. Constitution we can clearly see that the 14th amendment prohibits this. Secession from the union of the United States was the open legal question before the Civil War, or as it is also known as in the South as the War of Secession. The 1830 Senate debate between Robert Hayne and Daniel Webster was centered on whether the Constitution was a treaty between multiple states or the founding’s of a single country. However the issue was practically decided by the war and the amendment that came with it.

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The society that has created these sets of laws or were created by a strict government to control a religious person, hinted by the lack of a 13th law. The laws seem to be a type of constitution created by the king Hammurabi, while the laws themselves seem to show that the king had influence in most matters, one can infer that this is in fact not a democratic government. Assuming a large population, most laws seem to be made to settle the matter quickly being that there is only one king. The society shown would have been one of the wealthiest and highest population due to the number of rules revolving around slaves, prostitution, inherited land, and crop or animal trade. These laws show that the society in agrarian, with slaves to work the fields, merchants delivering grain and oxen. Also the form of punishment included is thrown into the river or water, so they either the city itself, it close to a nearby river or has a canal or irrigation system that runs through the city.

“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” (Lantigua-Williams). As stated in the constitution, the Thirteenth amendment states that no person can be treated as a slave; the exception to this statement is the fact that the revision to the constitution says that anyone who is convicted of a crime can be treated like a slave. African Americans have been oppressed since they were brought over from Africa; consequently, they are constantly fighting the war on racism and having numerous struggles to overcome. The 13th shows in detail the different forms of mistreatment and inequality that people of color experience. Ava Duverney uses exceptional historical evidence, different forms of media, and expert advice to show that ever since the passage of the Thirteenth amendment, there has been an increase in the incarceration statistics of African Americans.