Slavery Clause

A slavery clause is a provision in a legal document, such as a contract or a law, that relates to slavery or the ownership of individuals as property. Slavery clauses have been used in various legal documents throughout history, and they have often been used to establish or maintain the legal status of slavery. For example, slavery clauses have been used in contracts to specify the terms and conditions of the enslavement of individuals, and they have been used in laws to regulate the practice of slavery. Slavery clauses have also been used in the abolition of slavery, to provide for the release of individuals from bondage and to establish their legal rights as free people.

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Does involuntary servitude still exist in NJ? For now, it does — in prisons

ByEyes on Trafficking News

People within the New Jersey prison system are required to work, and although the 13th Amendment eliminated slavery in the most basic sense, the idea of involuntary servitude is still allowed as …

Voters in five states have the chance to wipe slavery and indentured servitude off the books
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Voters in five states have the chance to wipe slavery and indentured servitude off the books

ByEyes on Trafficking News

When slavery was outlawed in the U.S. in 1865, the 13th Amendment included one exception. “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction,” the amendment reads. The penalty has remained on…