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

January 15 2021 Oregon U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley will again seek to end the legacy of a clause long used as a 'tool of control' over people of color. America was founded on beautiful principles of equality and justice. And our nation was also founded on horrific realities of slavery and white supremacy. If we are ever going to fully deliver on our founding principles, we have to directly confront those gruesome realities. One deeply disturbing reality is that when our nation ratified the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery, it included an exception. In the second clause, often referred to as ...

The framers of the 13th Amendment did not intend to establish an empire of prison labor. By Eric Foner Mr. Foner is the author of “The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.” Dec. 15, 2020 Convicts working on a prison farm in 1934.Credit...Lomax Collection, via Library of Congress Early this month, a group of Democratic members of Congress introduced an Abolition Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Why, in the year 2020, does the Constitution need an amendment dealing with the abolition of slavery? Wasn’t that accomplished over a century and a hal...