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Quotation from Slaughter-House Cases by Supreme Court of the United States
“The abolition of slavery and involuntary servitude was intended to make every one born in this country a freeman, and as such to give to him the right to pursue the ordinary avocations of life without other restraint than such as affects all others, and to enjoy equally with them the fruits of his labor.”
Slaughter-House Cases, Dissent of Justice Field (excerpt) (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource))
Field explains his broad reading of the Thirteenth Amendment's guarantee of freedom.
Citation: "The abolition of slavery and involuntary servitude was intended to make every one born in this country a freeman, and as such to give to him the right to pursue the ordinary avocations of life without other restraint than such as affects all others, and to enjoy equally with them the fruits of his labor." — Supreme Court of the United States, Slaughter-House Cases, Dissent of Justice Field (excerpt) (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource)). (id slaughter-house-cases-q5)
Portrait: Samuel Freeman Miller - Brady-Handy, Mathew Benjamin Brady / Levin Corbin Handy, Public domain.
