With the exception of cases of peonage, beyond the period of Reconstruction, the federal government took almost no action to enforce the 13th Amendment until December 1941 when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt summoned his attorney general.
除了苦工以外，在重建时期之后，联邦政府对第十三号修正案的执行几乎没有任何作为，直到1941年12月富兰克林·德拉诺·罗斯福总统召唤总检察长为止。