Amendment 13

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.


Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation

This amendment abolished slavery, however it did not make former slaves technically citizens of the United States.
 

 
This image shows a slave asking for freedom, combined with the phrase "Am I not a man and a brother?" This picture shows the ideology that the 13th amendment attempted to spread, that all men are created equal and the government should no longer treat people as if they are property.
 


This video is mainly focusing on states individual rights, but they bring up a point as an example of how the Obama administration is violating the 13th amendment by forcing young people to be made to do community service. They compare this to slavery and say that if you are not allowed to set your own pay scale or negotiate any sort of pay than it is against the 13th amendment. This obviously not what the 13th amendment is talking about and is in no way the same thing as slavery. The congressman is largely overstating the problem in order to gain support for a House joint resolution declaring New Hampshire a "sovereign state".