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Slavery abolished in America
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by ricknight | December 18, 2007 at 07:54 am
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Following its ratification by the requisite three-quarters of the states earlier in the month, the 13th Amendment is formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution, ensuring that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude... shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
It's the letter of the law, but nearly a century and a half later, is the spirit embraced?
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at 17:13 on December 18th, 2007
Thanks for posting this, Ricknight. The complete wording of Section 1 of the 13th Amendment reads:
Section 1. 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.
at 02:38 on October 23rd, 2008
yo this is gr8
at 03:47 on November 25th, 2008
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