Episode 101: The Thirteenth Amendment

<p>After the Civil War, Congress passed a bundle of Amendments which came to be known as the Reconstruction Amendments. Their purpose was to address the mass racial inequality that plagued the still forming nation. But did they work? And are they still relevant today? Helping us unpack the first of these Amendments - the Thirteenth - is <a href="https://www.usfca.edu/law/faculty/maria-ontiveros" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Maria Ontiveros</a>, a Law Professor at the University of San Francisco and Thirteenth Amendment scholar.  </p>