Slavery After Emancipation: Understanding Peonage, Forced Labor, and the Hidden History of Modern Slavery in America
Why People Say “Slavery Didn’t Really End in 1865” Most Americans learn that slavery officially ended in 1865 with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Legally, this amendment abolished chattel slavery across the United States. However, history is often more complicated than the laws written on paper. In the decades […]