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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Go read it again; the word "except" is doing the heavy lifting here.

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[+] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 years 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.

That except. Though their wording about free people seems misguided in the context.

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

The working context here is larger than what is visible. You will find this to be generally true with human interactions. Best of luck.

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 years ago

The 13th amendment banned chattel slavery, but turbocharged penal slavery.

Deregulation in general and of the for profit prison industry in particular has made it so that there's more slaves in the US now than there ever was before the 13th was passed.

Granted, penal slavery is of course nowhere near as bad as chattel slavery was, but it's still slavery, which is morally repugnant barbary and outlawed in every civilized legal system i the world.