SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – As people across the country celebrated Juneteenth, some question whether or not lawmakers in 1865 actually intended to abolish enslavement. Juneteenth commemorates the ...

This week marks the 160th anniversary of the passage of the 13th Amendment. Congress, dominated by free state Republicans after the secession of slaveholding states, worked for 18 months to secure ...

NEW YORK — A crowd, most of them employees with ID badges around their necks, gathered in the back of the room of Sotheby’s for the last two items of Thursday’s morning auction. They weren’t there to ...

An original copy of the constitutional amendment that abolished slavery will make its first Virginia visit next weekend as part of Richmond's Civil War and Emancipation Day activities. The ...

Billionaire Ken Griffin bought original copies of the 13th Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation, both signed by former President Abraham Lincoln, at a New York Sotheby’s auction. The hedge fund ...

American history buffs, this is the auction for you. A rare copy of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation will be going under the hammer at Sotheby’s later this month, as a part ...

A handwritten copy of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution signed by Abraham Lincoln has sold at auction for a record $13.7 million. It’s the highest price ever paid for a document signed by ...

Ken Griffin, known for purchasing a Stegosaurus skeleton and a rare copy of the U.S. Constitution, recently acquired Abraham Lincoln's handwritten copy of the 13th Amendment. Griffin purchased the ...