This amendment bans [*] peonage except in cases of punishment for a crime, but it makes no mention of race with regard to its main subject.
This constitutional amendment was introduced by James Mitchell Ashley. Active enforcement of it ended in 1947, and in Jones v. Mayer, Potter Stewart ruled that Title 42, section 1982 of the US Code was a valid application of this amendment. This amendment bans [*] peonage except in cases of punishment for a crime, but it makes no mention of race with regard to its main subject. This amendment's conditions replaced the Emancipation Proclamation. For 10 points, name this Constitutional amendment which bans involuntary servitude and slavery, the first of the "Reconstruction Amendments."
This constitutional amendment was introduced by James Mitchell Ashley.
{Thirteenth} Amendment