Well you can expect slavery to become illegal.

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Right but institutional slavery is more problematic

Completely fucking ridiculous that it needs to be on the ballot, but it's also completely fucking ridiculous that slavery was never properly outlawed federally in the first place.

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.

We did that in the 1860s dum dum

No we didn't.

Whose gonna tell him what the 13th amendment is

> 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.

this one?

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Breaking rocks in the hot sun...

Involuntary labor is not uncommon for prisons.

What is the point of saying that? That slavery is okay because it is common?

The excerpt from Vermont's code is even worse, includes repaying debts I believe. Of course that'd be outlawed at the federal level, but still.

Bad things are often common

I think they're just noting that slavery is alive and well in the US prison system, and that people should be aware of it and it should be ended.

At least that's my assumption.