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minus-squarestoly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·edit-221 hours agoSlavery has always been legal in the US and will always be legal until a constitutional amendment removes it. The only time slavery is not legal is when it is based on race.
minus-squareharmbugler@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 hours agoSlavery is legal in prisons and prisons lean heavily towards black incarceration, so they found a way around it more or less.
minus-squarestoly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 hours agoThat is specifically why Nixon began the “War on Drugs”.
Slavery has always been legal in the US and will always be legal until a constitutional amendment removes it. The only time slavery is not legal is when it is based on race.
Slavery is legal in prisons and prisons lean heavily towards black incarceration, so they found a way around it more or less.
That is specifically why Nixon began the “War on Drugs”.