The 13th Amendment

The 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States, but controversy remains over the loophole in the amendment that says that prisoners can be forced to work.
60-Second Civics, Episode 5045: December 20, 2023
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Image/video credits: "Escaped slave Gordon, also known as "Whipped Peter," Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/re... "Scene in the House on the passage of the proposition to amend the Constitution, January 31, 1865," Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress; www.loc.gov/re... "A slave-coffle passing the Capitol," Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/pi... "Reading the Emancipation Proclamation," Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/pi... "The surrender of Lee," Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/pi... "Inmates working in the kitchen of homeless men's bureau. Sioux City, Iowa," Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/pi... House of Representatives; "A Southern chain gang," Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/pi... Constitution Of Alabama 2022, alison.legisla....