Question

Which of the statements below elucidates the 13th Amendment? If a slave owner claims a slave committed a crime, he can keep him as a slave. A women must be emancipated if she has been tried and convicted of a crime. The amendment guarantees that no man woman or child can legally be enslaved in the United States. Involuntary servitude means forced to work for another person without pay or freedom to leave that work.

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The 13th Amendment, ratified in 1865, says: “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.” Scholars, activists and prisoners have linked that exception clause to the rise of a prison system that incarcerates black people at more than five times the rate of white people, and profits off of their unpaid or underpaid labor.

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