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Legalized Slavery in Modern United States? A quick look on the 13th amendment and prison labor.


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This episode is a quick look into the 13th amendment and prison labor.   The link to the 13th documentary is:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8

Sources for this episode:

https://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/13th-amendment#:~:text=Passed%20by%20Congress%20on%20January,within%20the%20United%20States%2C%20or

https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/interpretation/amendment-xiii/interps/137

https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/research/cornell-law-review/Print-Edition/upload/Goodwin-final.pdf

https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-prison-labor/

https://www.nyulawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/NYULawReview-94-6-Pope.pdf

https://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/chain-gangs/

https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/chain-gangs

https://www.reimaginerpe.org/node/856#:~:text=The%20chain%20gang%20was%20abolished,end%20of%20the%20Civil%20War.&text=Just%20a%20few%20decades%20later,systems%20of%20prison%20labor%20exploitation.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/prisonindex/prisonlabor.html

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/04/10/wages/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States#Mississippi_for-profit_prison_labor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20U.S.%20Bureau,%2C%20and%20Hispanic%20males%2024%25.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/index.html

https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/article29322202.html

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Viva QuestBy Christine Alvarez