The very fact that the United States government had to call for this step to outlaw slavery in this country once and for all tells us that the more emancipated way we think in modern times wasn’t always the way life was considered just a few hundred years ago. In light of the long uphill scramble black history in this country represents, it is worthwhile to look back at this elementary but powerful amendment which plainly states…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.
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