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The 13th Amendment's fatal flaw created modern-day convict slavery

  • Written by Kwasi Konadu, Professor in Africana & Latin American Studies, Colgate University
imageIn this rare photograph taken in 2000, prisoners at the Ferguson Unit in Texas are seen working in the prison's cotton fields. Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

The 13th Amendment is having a moment of reckoning. Considered one of the crowning achievements of American democracy, the Civil War-era constitutional amendment set...

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