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Slavery has ended, but we still have work to do
December 06, 2016 | By ETHAN BLEVINS
We ended slavery over 150 years ago today. It was a formative and controversial moment. But we rarely see the Thirteenth Amendment–which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude–invoked today as a means of securing liberty. Is it relevant to the issues we deal with now? I believe it is. The Thirteenth Amendment which ended slavery w ...
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Whales as "slaves" and other strange tales from the Golden State
February 09, 2012 | By JENNIFER THOMPSON
A federal district court judge today dismissed a lawsuit filed by PETA, the (in)famous animal rights group, alleging that Sea World was violating the Thirteenth Amendment by keeping whales as slaves. Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 at the close of the Civil War to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude. Fast forward 147 years ...