"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." — Thirteenth Amendment, ratified December 1865
The Thirteenth Amendment differed from the Emancipation Proclamation chiefly because it:
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Permanently abolished slavery nationwide rather than only in rebelling areas
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Required loyalty oaths from former Confederates
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Granted citizenship to freed people
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Established the Freedmen's Bureau
Explanation
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves only in Confederate-controlled areas as a war measure; the Thirteenth Amendment constitutionally abolished slavery throughout the entire United States.