• mechoman444@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    You are incorrect. Slavery is not baked into the Constitution. I’ve already addressed that point.

    No state uses slave labor in the way you’re implying. Once again, you’re making blanket statements that intentionally ignore important legal and factual distinctions in order to support your narrative. You also present your interpretation as though it’s the only credible one, when it clearly isn’t.

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      1 day ago

      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.

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        13 hours ago

        Yes. Correct. They particular clauses heavily debated if it actually cost you slavery or what not.

        Most countries on Earth use some kind of prison labor to some capacity.

        In the United States almost all prison labor is voluntary a very few prisoners are forced into it and they are compensated to some degree.

        So even with the exclusion clause in the 13th amendment, antebellum style Shadow slavery does not exist in this country.