To appease slave owners, the act gradually emancipated enslaved people without making slavery immediately illegal. The Thirteenth Amendment officially abolished slavery.The Fourteenth Amendment offered a significant bundle of citizenship rights. There, Pennsylvania passed an anti-kidnapping law, providing protections for those accused of being fugitive slaves. Amendments was ''the freedom of the slave race. The slaves were more or less numerous in the different colonies, as slave labor was found more or less profitable. Will of Andrew Hamilton, Philadelphia. Article 1, Section 9, Clause 1, is one of a handful of provisions in the original Constitution related to slavery, though it does not use the word "slave." The 13th Amendment formally abolished slavery. The 14th Amendment established African Americans as equal citizens of the United States.