The Constitution of the United States · Amend. XIII, § 1

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.

United States · 1787 and amendments I–XXVII
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