• andros_rex@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Ah you’re right, got my wires switched.

    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.

    Amazing how many states passed vagrancy laws in the decades after that…