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Contrary to popular understanding, the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution did not prohibit slavery. The text makes it clear:
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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"Clinton"???? As in, his great-grandfather? WTF........
AnneWimsey
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June 25, 2020
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So--this is a ''long-time'' custom. Why do we make it sound like a CLINTON invention? Is anyone in this country who came into contact with the prison system innocent? Instead of focusing on the past (in a decidedly political way)...why don't we fix the system and move on? Could these men have refused the job? If so...it's hardly ''slavery,'' is it?
LucyLoohoo
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June 25, 2020
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It is slavery in that they are not paid, and they did not have a choice about working there. It is not a Clinton invention, but the Clintons did not try to stop it and in fact benefitted from it.
@HippieChick58 Convict labor was used for decades in the south. I remember seeing them on road-gangs when I was a child. It's what was done. No--the Clintons may not have tried to stop it but neither did many other Governors, etc. My point was...why call them out? Why not George Wallace, for example?
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