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The 41 pages that link to Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, each with the reason it gives.

• American Civil WarRelated: It made emancipation nationwide and permanent in constitutional law.

• Frederick DouglassRelated: Douglass campaigned for emancipation as the Civil War transformed abolition from a movement into national policy.

• Reconstruction eraRelated: It ended legal slavery nationwide but left Congress to define and protect freedom in practice.

• Abraham LincolnRelated: Lincoln supported its passage as the permanent legal end to slavery.

• Republican PartyRelated: Republican lawmakers helped secure its passage after the Civil War.

• Dred Scott v. SandfordRelated: It ended the legal institution of slavery that the decision had protected as property.

• Confederate States of AmericaRelated: Its ratification made permanent the destruction of the slave system the Confederacy had defended.

• SharecroppingRelated: Abolition ended legal chattel slavery but did not provide most freedpeople with land.

• African-American historyRelated: It ended legal chattel slavery while leaving room for coercive labor systems.

• JuneteenthRelated: It made abolition nationwide and constitutional beyond the announcement in Texas.

• Black CodesRelated: Its ratification ended legal slavery, prompting state efforts to control Black labor by other means.

• Civil rightsRelated: Abolition created the constitutional foundation for later federal protections against racial subordination.

• Freedmen's BureauRelated: Abolition made the Bureau's work supporting people emerging from slavery a federal concern.

• Convict leasingRelated: Its punishment exception enabled coerced labor imposed through criminal sentences.

• Union ArmyRelated: Union military victory made ratification possible and secured emancipation in law.

• American Equal Rights AssociationRelated: Its ratification shifted reformers’ attention from abolition toward citizenship and suffrage.

• DelawareRelated: Delaware rejected ratification before slavery ended nationally through the amendment.

• The LiberatorRelated: Its ratification in 1865 fulfilled The Liberator’s central demand, and the paper ceased publication that year.

• Fifteenth Amendment to the United States ConstitutionRelated: Its abolition of slavery made the phrase “previous condition of servitude” central to the later voting guarantee.

• Roger B. TaneyRelated: It abolished the institution whose protection underlay Taney’s most notorious ruling.

• Eric FonerRelated: Its passage made the legal destruction of slavery a central problem in Foner’s account of Reconstruction.

• Thaddeus StevensRelated: Stevens’s long abolitionist campaign culminated in the constitutional end of slavery.

• Theodore Dwight WeldRelated: Its ratification legally ended slavery, the central aim of Weld’s reform work.

• Nat LoveRelated: Its ratification ended the legal institution under which Love had been born enslaved.

• History of MarylandRelated: It completed nationally what Maryland’s 1864 constitution had already done within the state.