Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by stirfish 363 days ago
>The last slaves in the United States were set free by the thirteenth amendment

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.

Section 2

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

You may be surprised to learn that, coincidentally, America has more people in prison than anywhere else.