It declared that "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, nor any place subject to their jurisdiction." That means if you were convicted of a crime, you were not free. Today, there are more Black men in prison than were enslaved in 1860. Is that by random occurrence, or by plan? Considering that our prison system is mostly privatized, I would say that there is…
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