Alabama
Glitter Magazine | November Brings New Opportunities for Five States to Outlaw Slavery | #elections | #alabama
vesperstock/ Shutterstock In November, voters in five states have the power to remove language that allows involuntary servitude and slavery as punishment for a crime or debt from their state constitutions.
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Alabama
What Year Is It? Five States have Slavery on the Ballot | #elections | #alabama
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Google-News-Wire
- September 23, 2022
- 13th
- Abolitionism
- Bianca Tylek
- Debt bondage
- Economic history of the United States
- Involuntary servitude
- Jeff Merkley
- Krysta Bisnauth
- labor
- Nikema Williams
- Penal labor in the United States
- Penal labour
- Reconstruction Era
- slavery
- social issues
- The Root
- Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Unfree labour
Photo: Castelski (Shutterstock) During the November midterm elections, Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont will have to vote whether or not to fully abolish slavery, according to Yahoo! News. Now, we’re obviously not talking about whips and chains. We’re talking about that sly loophole in the 13th Amendment that subjects those convicted of a crime […]
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