The Due Process Clause provides that no states shall deprive any "person" of "life, liberty or property" without due process of law. African Americans, including those in San Antonio, wanted something more than victory over fascism.The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. Under the 14th Amendment, African Americans could now legally claim the same constitutional rights afforded to all American citizens. Quirements present in the Fourteenth Amendment's text. Difficult, but it will ultimately be essential to filling in the gaps in San Antonio's slave history. Two 1860 letters from San Antonio, Tex. Local African American businessman and political operative. Until the latter part of the 20th century, there was no support in. American law for a constitutional right to obtain an abortion.