Thirteenth Amendment
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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.
Ratified Dec. 6, 1865. This was the first amendment passed after the end of the Civil War. The purpose was to prohibit slavery.
New Jersey, Delaware and Kentucky ratified this amendment after initially rejecting it. Kentucky did not ratify this amendment until 1976, in a symbolic gesture.
Mississippi rejected this amendment and never ratified it, but is bound by it because it had been ratified by three-quarters of the states.
