The hedge-fund billionaire also paid a record $43.2 million for a copy of the U.S. Constitution four years ago.

Griffin paid a record $13.7M for the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation. Both documents were ...

Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well ...

Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...

Ken Griffin bought an Abraham Lincoln–signed copy of the 13th Amendment, for $13.7 million, and the Emancipation Proclamation ...

Billionaire hedge funder Kenneth Griffin was the buyer of record-breaking copies of the 13th Amendment and the Emancipation ...

The hedge fund founder paid $13.7 million for a copy of the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation ...

Ken Griffin paid a record $13.7M for the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation. Both documents were signed by Abraham Lincoln.

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...