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Slavery was never really abolished, it's still allowed as punishment for a crime. The bias of police and the criminal justice system against people of certain races takes on a new meaning in this light.

[pyuser583]

No … slavery is/was the reduction of humans to commodities. Even a convicted prisoner can’t be sold.

There’s an exception in the 13th for convicts, but the results are very different from chattel slavery.