An amendment to the United States Constitution to abolish slavery introduced during the American Civil War.
The House of Representatives of the Thirty-Eighth Session of Congress
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The House is informed H. R. 244 passed the Senate; it is taken up in the House and debated.
The Senate have receded from their amendments, disagreed to by the House, to the bill of the House (H. R. 244) to guarantee to certain States whose governments have been usurped or overthrown a republican form of government.