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United States Thirteenth Amendment 1863-65
An amendment to the United States Constitution to abolish slavery introduced during the American Civil War.
Guided Research Tools
A guide to finding information in committee timelines, about particular documents, or about particular individuals
Help with searching
If you are looking for a particular phrase within the written texts considered by this negotiation, you can search for moments when this phrase was introduced for consideration or decided upon. This is often the most helpful starting-point for legal research.
Alternatively, you may wish to search the descriptions of each event within this negotiation. This will not search for phrases under consideration, but rather the text of the various minutes upon which this edition of the negotiation is based.
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To search the minutes of a particular committee it is easiest to use the committee visualization pages (from here you can further drill down to individual sessions)
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Document list view
You can discover the complete list of documents considered by the negotiation (and find where they were introduced) on The Convention Document Map.
If you are interested only in the documents as they appeared at the end of the negotiation (with any rejected documents removed), you can use the The Convention Current Document Library.
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