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Quotation from Slaughter-House Cases by Supreme Court of the United States
“no one can fail to be impressed with the one pervading purpose found in them all, lying at the foundation of each, and without which none of them would have been even suggested; we mean the freedom of the slave race, the security and firm establishment of that freedom, and the protection of the newly-made freeman and citizen from the oppressions of those who had formerly exercised unlimited dominion over him.”
Slaughter-House Cases, Opinion of the Court (Miller, J.) (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource))
Miller sums up the purpose of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments after recounting their history.
Citation: "no one can fail to be impressed with the one pervading purpose found in them all, lying at the foundation of each, and without which none of them would have been even suggested; we mean the freedom of the slave race, the security and firm establishment of that freedom, and the protection of the newly-made freeman and citizen from the oppressions of those who had formerly exercised unlimited dominion over him." — Supreme Court of the United States, Slaughter-House Cases, Opinion of the Court (Miller, J.) (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource)). (id slaughter-house-cases-q1)
Portrait: Samuel Freeman Miller - Brady-Handy, Mathew Benjamin Brady / Levin Corbin Handy, Public domain.
