This is a bait and switch exactly as Lincoln did. If you read the 13th Amendment very carefully you will realize that in no place does it mention anything about freeing the slaves. What it actually does is make us all equal. There is a huge difference between the two and this is always overlooked by educational institutions. It was a way of removing some individual rights and redefining us all under the Union whether everyone liked it or not. the details are too much to go into here in a clip. I only bring this up because the recent ruling in California allowing gay marriage was handled identically. The guy who wrote this article did an excellent job of breaking this fact down. Our laws apply to us as members of a group now and not as individuals as this shows. It is extremely dangerous for us as a nation to allow laws to be worded in this way and subtly shows the erosion of individual rights unless framed in a corporate environment.