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Voters in four US states approved ballot measures to amend their state constitutions to end slavery and involuntary servitude, even as punishment for a crime. | TAG24
And Lula, of course, being an old socialist, is against guns, but Congress may stand in his way. No problem though, because we’re told he can put in place by decree “what Brazil had before.”
Nearly 157 years after the 13th Amendment was ratified to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, five states will ask voters to decide on measures banning slavery — in the form of prison labor.
I watched closer as the miles fell away and saw that there was not one South, but two, one “White,” and one “Colored.” The two clearly weren't equal.
NPR’s Michel Martin welcomed history professor Peniel E. Joseph to PBS’s Amanpour and Company to discuss his latest book where he compares the election of Barack Obama to the passage of the Reconstruction Amendments and to Civil Rights Movement and the election of Donald Trump to the backlash to those movements.