Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Bibliography

Articles

• Belz, Herman. “The Civil War Amendments to the Constitution: The Relevance of Original Intent.” Constitutional Commentary 5 (1988): 115–141.
• Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. (1896): 537.
• Zietlow, Rebecca E. “Free at Last! Anti-Subordination and the Thirteenth Amendment.” Boston University Law Review 90 (2010): 255–312.
• Zuckert, Michael P. “Completing the Constitution: The Thirteenth Amendment.” Constitutional Commentary 4 (1987): 259–284.

Books

• Barnett, Randy E., ed. The Original Meaning and Continuing Relevance of the Thirteenth Amendment. Washington, DC: Georgetown Center for the Constitution, 2019.
• Belz, Herman. Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism, and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era. New York: Fordham University Press, 1998.
• Blight, David W., and Brooks D. Simpson, eds. Union and Emancipation: Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1997.
• Bogue, Allan G. The Earnest Men: Republicans of the Civil War Senate. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981.
• Du Bois, W. E. B. Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–1880. New York: Russell and Russell, 1963.
• Hyman, Harold M. A More Perfect Union: The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on the Constitution. New York: Knopf, 1973.
• Nicolay, John G. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Century, 1902.
• Paludan, Phillip S. A Covenant with Death: The Constitution, Law, and Equality in the Civil War Era. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975.
• Richards, Leonard L. Who Freed the Slaves? The Fight over the Thirteenth Amendment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.
• Samito, Christian G. Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2015.
• U.S. Congress. Congressional Globe, 38th Cong., 1st sess., 1864, 155.
• Vorenberg, Michael. Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Websites

• “Documents from Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867.” University of Maryland website. http://www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen/sampdocs.htm.
• “The End of Slavery: The Creation of the 13th Amendment.” HarpWeek website. http://13thamendment.harpweek.com/.