For more than 150 years, June 19 has been a day to celebrate the end of slavery in the United States. Communities across the ...

Did you know Tennessee has two holidays celebrating Emancipation from slavery? Juneteenth, the federal holiday, and August 8.

Andrew Johnson famously freed his slaves on Aug. 8, 1863, but it would be another 18 months before Tennessee freed enslaved people statewide.

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

Jumoke Emery’s path to rethinking the 13th Amendment that abolished slavery started in a Colorado jail cell. It was 2014, and the then-27-year-old community organizer had just returned home from ...

Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except for punishment for a crime for which the defendant ...

Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except for punishment for a crime for which the defendant ...

The 13th Amendment currently allows for slavery "as punishment for crime." An “Abolition Amendment” was introduced in Congress last week that would eliminate the so-called slavery loophole in ...

This Nov. 29, 2011, file photo shows the signature of president Abraham Lincoln on a rare, restored copy of the 13th Amendment that ended slavery, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast ...

It did not. It simply created mass incarceration, which is slavery by another name. You’re probably asking, “Didn’t the 13th Amendment end slavery in 1865?” And you’re probably also ...