Convict labor could be rented by plantation and business owners.
The Thirteenth Amendment to the US constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a criminal punishment. There is a link to an article on the Thirteenth Amendment below.
The Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a criminal punishment. (It was ratified on December 6, 1865.)
A punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted
The thirteenth amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude
slaveryThe thirteenth amendment abolished slavery.
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
It prohibited slavery and involuntary servitude unless as a punishment when the person is duly convicted and still prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude today.
The 13th Amendment abolishes slavery with a single exception. It allows involuntary servitude 'as a punishment for crime whereof the party has been duly convicted.'
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is the one that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864.
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude, with the exception of punishment for a crime.
The thirteenth amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1865, prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime. This means that individuals can be treated as slaves if they are duly convicted of a crime and are serving a sentence of forced labor as part of their punishment.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, ...