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/resource/ppmsca.5... "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/resource/ppmsca.5... "A slave-coffle passing the Capitol," Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/pictures/item/985... "Reading the Emancipation Proclamation," Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/pictures/resource... "The surrender of Lee," Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/pictures/resource... "Inmates working in the kitchen of homeless men's bureau. Sioux City, Iowa," Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/pictures/resource... House of Representatives; "A Southern chain gang," Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/pictures/item/201... Constitution Of Alabama 2022, alison.legislature.state.al.u....