{"id":7761,"date":"2016-02-01T10:58:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T18:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=7761"},"modified":"2016-02-01T10:58:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T18:58:49","slug":"february-1-is-national-freedom-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/february-1-is-national-freedom-day\/","title":{"rendered":"February 1 is National Freedom Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2016\/02\/promisesofLiberty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-7762\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2016\/02\/promisesofLiberty.jpg\" alt=\"promisesofLiberty\" width=\"253\" height=\"388\" \/><\/a>On February 1, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln signed the 13<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment to the US Constitution. As the amendment made explicit, \u201cneither 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more about it: Tsesis, Alexander. <a href=\"http:\/\/primo.pugetsound.edu\/UPUGS:upugs_alma:CP71189357170001451\"><em>The Promises of Liberty The History and Contemporary Relevance of the Thirteenth Amendment<\/em><\/a>. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. (ebook)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 1, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln signed the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution. As the amendment made explicit, \u201cneither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/february-1-is-national-freedom-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7763,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761\/revisions\/7763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}