Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the second half of the 19th century. Manisha ...

California's Proposition 6 and Nevada's Question 4 sounded like similar prison reforms. But key differences may explain the ...

California voters rejected the anti-slavery measure Proposition 6, which would have banned forced labor in state prisons.

Forced labor as punishment for crime is legal in many states due to an exception clause in the 13th Amendment of the U.S.

“In California, slavery is abolished, but involuntary servitude isn’t. There’s been a lot of back-and-forth about this,” said Dennis Febo, a lead organizer of the Abolish Slavery National ...

The measure would have amended the state’s constitution to repeal language that allows involuntary servitude as a form of ...

Other states, including Nevada, are deleting references to slavery in their constitutions and banning forced prison labor. California voters rejected that path when they turned down Prop. 6.

California has rejected a ballot measure that would have amended the state constitution to ban forced prison labor. The state ...

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