In school, children are taught that the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. But that’s only half the story. The 13th Amendment bans slavery and involuntary servitude “except as a punishment for a crime.” That infamous loophole, which is the subject of Ava DuVernay’s film 13th, has allowed for the forced labor of millions of incarcerated people—a disproportionate number of whom are Black—throughout the United States.
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