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Not officially. Overt slavery ended with the 13th Amendment in 1865. But in many places there were prison farms and chain gangs. Troublesome blacks could find themselves here more for speaking out than for any crime. It took the threat of prosecution for involuntary servitude (the legal term for slavery) by the Roosevelt administration's Justice Department to rein in the worst of these abuses.

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