Re:Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Bl...
by thaumasiotes on Friday August 16, 2019 @03:50PM
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> Why did the 13th amendment -- which abolished slavery, make an exception for those convicted of a crime?
Because conscripted labor was an independent tradition going back thousands of years. Compare the legal status of compelling people to work on the roads.
There was also an exception for the military, though that wasn't written into the 13th amendment.
Because conscripted labor was an independent tradition going back thousands of years. Compare the legal status of compelling people to work on the roads.
There was also an exception for the military, though that wasn't written into the 13th amendment.