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Under the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, slavery is allowed for those who are incarcerated. It is time to strike that language.

The specter of legalized slavery still lingers in too many state constitutions. Demand lawmakers remove loopholes that leave the door open for forced servitude and bondage in the Land of the Free.

The 13th Amendment includes an exception that allows for slavery as punishment for a crime. Artists are working to end that.

Last year, President Biden made Juneteenth a federal holiday, but the United States has yet to acknowledge the direct line from chattel slavery in the…

Scholarly research of slavery and the histories of African America shows the 13th Amendment’s exception clause reinvented slave labor and involuntary servitude behind prison walls.

Given the political realities and economic imperatives at play, free prison labor will persist in America for the foreseeable future, leaving in serious doubt the idea of American freedom.

The 13th Amendment is having a moment of reckoning. Considered one of the crowning achievements of American democracy, the Civil War-era constitutiona

The 13th Amendment is given credit for freeing an estimated 4 million enslaved people during the Civil War era. It also enabled a prison system of free labor and involuntary servitude.

The 13th Amendment is having a moment of reckoning. Considered one of the crowning achievements of American democracy, the Civil War-era constitutiona

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