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“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude,” the amendment reads, “except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
In other words, slavery still exists in America, but the only people whose labor can be enslaved are those convicted of a crime.
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The 13th Amendment's fatal flaw created modern-day convict slavery
The 13th Amendment's fatal flaw created modern-day convict slavery
In this rare photograph taken in 2000, prisoners at the Ferguson Unit in Texas are seen working in the prison's cotton fields. Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty ImagesThe 13th Amendment is having a moment of reckoning. Considered one of the crowning achievements of American...
In other words, slavery still exists in America, but the only people whose labor can be enslaved are those convicted of a crime.
Kwasi Konadu, Professor in Africana & Latin American Studies, Colgate University and Clifford C. Campbell, Visiting Lecturer, Dartmouth College...
