The Thirteenth Amendment Screws

Let’s take a simple test about the scope of the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution (ratified in 1865).

True or false: the Thirteenth Amendment prohibiting slavery applies to all people.

The correct answer is false.

The thirty-two-word Amendment states the following:

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to its jurisdiction.… Read the rest