An amendment to the Constitution of the United States that granted citizenship and equal rights, both civil and legal, to Black Americans, including those who had been emancipated by the thirteenth amendment.
A sub-committee of the Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction appointed to examine and report the present condition of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina; their actions in relation to any amendments to the Federal and State constitutions; the present legal position of freedmen in the states; how the ordinances of secession are being treated in the states; and whether the validity of debts contracted for the support of the rebellion is acknowledged.
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Members of the sub-committee are appointed by the Chairman of the Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction
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