Slavery is still constitutionally legal in the U.S.; that must end | COMMENTARY
Under the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, slavery is allowed for those who are incarcerated. It is time to strike that language.
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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.