The People of this State have the sole and exclusive right of regulating the internal government and police thereof, as a free, sovereign and independent State. Amendments was ''the freedom of the slave race.The Thirteenth Amendment officially abolished slavery. The end of the English. Royal African Company's slave trade monopoly in. The conspicuous exception to this was the holding in the Dred Scott case that former slaves, as non-citizens, could not claim the protections of the clause. There, Pennsylvania passed an anti-kidnapping law, providing protections for those accused of being fugitive slaves. Disparities in arrest rates were carried forward into disparities in the people detained at the Baltimore City Jail (B-5315) on E. Publication Date. 2012. Keywords. All other slave states followed when the 13th Amendment was ratified in 1865, which forever abolished slavery in the now reunited United States.