One step forward
Today is the one-hundred and thirty-ninth anniversary of the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution by the state of Georgia. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in America: 1860-1880 ought to be compulsory reading for any leftist who is the least bit squeamish when the subject of state power (read:dictatorship) comes up.
"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."
"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."
