| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | zuchinibut (45)
10/25/2008 | Slavery is a stain on America's past, and it was most important that our government recognized this and amended the constitution to make it illegal. There will most likely always be race and class oppression in this country and throughout the world, but the abolition of slavery was an amazing step towards bringing about greater civil rights for all people.
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 | CanadaSucks (50)
02/24/2007 | . . .even Russia emancipated the serfs at this point. . .certainly a 5-star moment when it happened but indicative of America's ironic place in Western Civ. as a wonderful experiment in freedom and philosophy yet behind-the-times on certain social issues that are oh-so-clear to the rest of the world. . .
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 | JayPeriod (5)
02/24/2007 | The Constitution stated that, "All men are created equal," but slavery did not reflect this view. Opening the eyes of people to the bad thinking behind slavery most likely opened the idea of treating all workers better.
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 | LanceRoxas (41)
06/10/2005 | Oh my God... you mean the Supreme Court didn't put an end to slavery?
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 | Mr.Political (21)
05/02/2005 | Strangely enough, because most people tend to skim over the Consitutional Amendments following the Bill of Rights, many forget about the historical significance of the 13th Amendmant. The abolition of slavery helped to ensure that a demeaning and inhumane practice could not be revived while a lot more needed to be done in order to give Black Americans their definition of equality. Needless to say, this amendment deserves more publicity than it tends to get.
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 | EschewObfuscation (71)
04/22/2005 | This finished what the Founding Fathers had started but could never quite agree on. Slavery was an economic system in the 18th century and they knew they wouldn't get the southern states to ratify the constitution if there were a prohibition against slavery in it. Slavery was not unique to the southern states in the late 18th century but by the mid 19th century, most northern states had outlawed it. The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves, this went a step further and made the practice illegal.
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