the 14th amendment and slavery
The Fourteenth Amendment was one of three amendments to the Constitution adopted after the Civil War to guarantee black rights.The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, the Fourteenth granted citizenship to people once enslaved, and the Fifteenth guaranteed black men the right to vote.The Fourteenth Amendment was passed by Congress in June 1866 and ratified by the states in 1868.The Radical Republicans had been battling with Andrew Johnson for control of Reconstruction. Johnson was in favor of leaving the future of black people in the hands of white Southerners.he Fourteenth Amendment was one of three amendments to the Constitution adopted after the Civil War to guarantee black rights.