The Sixteen-Word Trap: How a Constitutional Loophole Rebuilt Slavery in America - Our History Now Podcast
History is rarely tidy. If you look closely at the 13 amendment, tucked between the promise of liberty and the signature of the state, you will find a constitutional trap door. With a mere sixteen words, the architects of the amendment did not just abolish slavery; they provided a legal blueprint for its reinvention.
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