Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷@solarbird "Slavery, though not by name."
Ohhh but absolutely slavery!
This foreigner's mind (who was always told that the freeest of the free had fought a civil war and abolished slavery like the good folk they are) was blown when I learned about that little itsy conditional in y'all's 13th amendment.
"except as a punishment for crime"
The USA absolutely have slavery on the books. Still.
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