The Thirteenth Amendment did not forbid only black slavery. The Fourteenth Amendment ... Eric Foner, THE SECOND FOUNDING: HOW THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION REMADE THE CONSTITUTION (2019).

John McLean was the first Ohioan to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, and he’s been called a complex justice. He was the only committed opponent to slavery on the court before the Civil War. Yet he ...

For instance, according to many memoirs by former enslavers published after Reconstruction, come Christmas morning each year before the Civil War, masters and household slaves always jointly ...

A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ...

LOS ANGELES — The national movement to close a so-called slavery loophole in state constitutions ... Tennessee — removed exceptions to post-Civil War bans on slavery and involuntary servitude.

The memorial to Civil War hero Robert Smalls is set to be erected on the Statehouse grounds. Design and location set. Now, ...