The United States didn't end slavery after the Civil War, we just started using the justice system to mask the original justifications for slavery. https://en.

The United States didn't end slavery after the Civil War, we just started using the justice system to mask the original justifications for slavery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School-to-prison_pipeline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School-to-prison_pipeline https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/20/prison-labor-protest-america-jailhouse-lawyers-speak https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/20/prison-labor... >More than 800,000 prisoners are daily put to work, in some states compulsorily, in roles such as cleaning, cooking and lawn mowing. >The remuneration can be as woeful in states such as Louisiana as 4 cents an hour. >The idea that such lowly-paid work in a $2bn industry is equivalent to slavery is leant weight by the 13th amendment of the US constitution. It banned slavery and involuntary servitude, with one vital exception: “as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted”. >Prisoners, in other words, have no constitutional rights and can be blatantly exploited.