13th Amendment

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/29/2021
  

  The Lack of Federal Voting Rights Protections Returns Us to the Pre-Civil War Era

  by Kate Masur

  New vote suppression bills in multiple states threaten to return the United States not to the Jim Crow era but to the period before the Civil War and Reconstruction when civil and political rights were protected or denied according to state politics. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/15/2020
  

  Abolition is Not Complete

  by Eric Foner

  The exception included in the 13th Amendment allowing involuntary labor on conviction of a crime was a holdover from prior laws; its authors certainly never intended to enable a system of prison labor, and the amendment should be amended. 

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  12/2/2020
  

  Democrats Introduce Legislation to Strike Slavery Exception in 13th Amendment

  The proposal would eliminate a loophole written into the 13th Amendment that allows involuntary servitude to be imposed on persons convicted of a crime. Some recent scholars have argued that this exemption is a foundation of the current system of mass incarceration. 

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• 7/3/2020
  

  The Case for a National Liberation Day Holiday on December 6

  by Robert Hardaway

  The anniversary of the ratification of the 13th Amendment, which finally eliminated slavery in the entire United States, should be made a national holiday.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9-30-18
  

  Kanye West calls for the abolition of the 13th Amendment

  The 13th Amendment 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.”

• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  2-18-13
  

  13th Amendment ratified in MS!

  Mississippi lawmakers have officially ratified the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which banned slavery in 1865.One hundred forty-eight years after three-fourths of the states voted to approve the amendment, Mississippi's legislature finally took steps to fix the glaring oversight last month. According to the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, the decision was inspired by the Oscar-nominated film "Lincoln," which depicts the 16th president's efforts to enact the amendment.