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    • DishonestBirb@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Slavery isn’t illegal in the US under the US constitution specifically if you’re convicted of a crime. The anti slavery amendment specifically allows that loophole. Not sure why people think slavery was abolished there, when all that actually happened were a change in the situations allowing it.

      The 13th amendment to the US constitution says this: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, 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.”

      • MrShankles@reddthat.com
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        Not sure why people think slavery was abolished there, when all that actually happened were a change in the situations allowing it

        Because of propaganda manufacturing consent?