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NYC Liberal

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9. Most people don't realize slavery isn't actually illegal...

Reply to Downtown Hound (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 20, 2013, 09:47 PM

Mar 2013

The 13th amendment merely requires "due process" to enslave someone.

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

So I'd say you're right on the money.

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... Mnemosyne Mar 2013 #4

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