Exactly. 13th Amendment, Section 1:
“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.”
It’s not abolishing, it’s just limiting slavery.
I'd argue that it doesn't limit it. The current incarcerated population in the US is 1.3 million. At the very peak of American slavery, the enslaved population was 4.4 million, which is a LOT of people, but you do have to take into consideration that the enslavers were financially responsible for providing food, water, and shelter to their slaves. Now the US taxpayer covers all of that and corporations can profit harder.
Taxpayer funded slave market. The taxpayer feeds them, clothes them, houses them, pays for the guards etc... THEN the elite get to use them for their discount labor.
Shit, that's an upgrade from a slaver's point of view.
Slavery was never abolished, it only became a wider spectrum.
Yup, it helped oppress even more poor people 😍. Heaven forbid we have class solidarity /s
...and it's about to get a whole lot fuckin worse.
Oh, sexy oompa loompa!
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The prisoners in the US are legally allowed to be slaves, according to the constitution. Some American would probably explain this better than me, but that's the gist of it..
Yep. The 13th amendment didn't abolish slavery like we're taught in schools, but made it so you could be legally enslaved as a punishment for committing crimes. They then just happened to make shit like "walking around at night while black" or "being unemployed and black" crimes that they could imprison you for and make you a slave again.
The only exception to forced labor in the american constitution is for prisoners. Our prison system has been heavily based on punishment and not rehabilitation since the 1980s. We have the largest incarcerated population in the entire world by a very long shot. If you get arrested for something and are innocent but awaiting trial (can take 1-2 years) and can't pay bail you will be in jail for that amount of time. You have to work a job while incarcerated in most cases. If you do get paid, it can be as little as 10 cents an hour and is not exempt from taxes.
Black people are disproportionately overrepresented in the system despite being just 13% of the population. Black people are more likely than white people to be found guilty and on average get longer sentences than white people for the exact same offence. Things associated with "black behavior" are more heavily criminalized. An example of this is the sentence duration of crack vs cocaine. Crack is more associated with poverty and blackness so it had a much longer minimum sentence than cocaine which is associated more with rich white circles. Basically our prison system unfairly targets people for being poor and a person of color.
