The hedge-fund billionaire also paid a record $43.2 million for a copy of the U.S. Constitution four years ago.

Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well ...

Community activists with ancestral ties to enslaved people at Louisiana plantations are using a unique legal theory to gain ...

13th Amendment is least cited of Reconstruction revisions, but its impact is powerful After the Civil War, to produce a firewall against slavery or the potentiality of slavery, the Thirteenth ...

Plaintiffs claim that Formosa is violating the 13th Amendment by restricting access to the burial site of five enslaved ...

The text of the 13th Amendment, which was ratified in December of 1865, states: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been ...

Ohio lawmakers are moving to amend a portion of the state’s constitution that permits slavery as a form of punishment for ...

The rare document could fetch $8 millionWill a Copy of Lincoln’s 13th Amendment Ending Slavery Set an Auction Record?

The 13th Amendment, passed in truly extraordinary circumstances, through extraordinary men, by extraordinary means, secured the political viability of the anti-slavery revolution.

Opinion: 13th Amendment has been cited to address what we consider modern forms of slavery, i.e., sex trafficking, bondage or aggravated kidnapping.

Griffin reset the record for any document signed by Lincoln when he paid Sotheby’s $13.7 million on Thursday for a rare, handwritten copy of the 13th Amendment.