Patrick Rael on the 13th Amendment: "First, the “loophole” argument imputes to its framers and judicial interpreters a conspiracy against intentions of full equality that the amendment never included in the first place. All the Thirteenth Amendment did was abolish slavery; it stood virtually moot on the meaning of freedom. This was by design. Antislavery … Continue reading Rael on the 13th Amendment and Mass Incarceration at @AAIHS