The 13th Amendment was one of the subjects of the film Lincoln, but the amendment was not ratified until half-a-year after the president’s death. In this post, I share some resources for understanding the history behind the Constitutional ending of slavery.
The first is a video from the Abraham Lincoln Museum:
Next Michael Vorenberg, a leading 13th Amendment scholar, speaks about the history of the amendment.
Here are resources from the Library of Congress on the 13th Amendment.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html
Here is a link to historian Matthew Pinsker on the historical accuracy of the movie Lincoln
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