Another excellent piece of research. I was also glad to see the idea of the “modernization of prisons” under the picture. This means simply a transition to a “better” more “streamlined” system of convict leasing, not an elimination of it. It is and does remain allowable to capture the labor of a black man or Latino who are “duly convicted” and leased out to a corporation or cotton plantation inside the prison or outside. In Texas, prisoners under the “duly convicted” leasing clause of the 13th amendment must work for free to pick cotton, and continue to slaves. The 13th states openly under the exception clause now the allowance of slavery as it did when Congress passed it and the People ratified it in December 1865, which Lincoln could not veto or sign into law since constitutional amendments bypass the President completely. Lincoln never thus “freed the slaves.” The President cannot make laws that apply to the US, only Congress does.
The amendment thus states in reword fashion: Except when a person is duly convicted of a crime and thus enslaved, slavery in the United States is over. Or Slavery in the United States is forever over, except when a person is duly convicted of a crime and then slavery is allowed. That’s how convict leasing existed, under the Constitutional principle that allows slavery to exist under the right conditions. Those conditions are being duly convicted of a crime. This meant in the confederate states in the 36 years after the war that black Americans were captured and leased out. The translation of “a party” (or person) convicted of a crime meant to every sheriff in the South a black American. You didn’t have to spell it out. However, the modernization of prisons meant slavery was not brought indoors. Inn 1934 slavery was nationalized by the federal government that created a new federal slavery program by the Bureau of Prisons called Unicor now. Most all of these slaves are seen on the BOP.gov website are minorities by now coincidence, and their leased labor is available to purchase. The Board members were all assigned by Republicans according to the website, with Bush or Trump. Not a surprise since the white conservative wing has always enjoyed leasing or owning black American labor to other white men.
Corporations do rent these slaves. Almost all states now have “convict leasing” that captures a convict’s labor into ownership papers called a lease that is put up for auction on a state’s website. Do wonder why black American men are arrested more that whites, and black poor areas patrolled more heavily than middle class white areas or rich areas, even though the richer people are the more drugs they abuse (soft drugs, hard drugs, alcohol) but poor blacks are stuck with the image of criminal drug dealers? One word. You know what it is. Read the thirteenth and visit the prison website where they rent out that labor. Or should I say that modern auction block.
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