An amendment to the United States Constitution to abolish slavery introduced during the American Civil War.
Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives for the Thirty-Eighth Session of Congress
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H. R. 14, H. R. 21, H. R. 22, H. R. 24, and H. Res 9 are all received from the House.
A BILL
To provide for submitting to the several States a proposition to amend the National Constitution prohibiting slavery or involuntary servitude in all the States, and in the Territories now owned, or which may hereafter be acquired, by the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be submitted by Congress to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which amendment, when approved by three-fourths of said legislatures, shall become a part of said Constitution.
ARTICLE –– . Slavery or involuntary servitude, except in punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, is hereby forever prohibited in all the States of this Union, and in all Territories now owned, or which may hereafter be acquired, by the United States.