In this rare photograph taken in 2000, prisoners at the Ferguson Unit in Texas are seen working in the prison’s cotton fields. Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images Kwasi Konadu, Colgate University and Clifford C. Campbell, Dartmouth College The 13th Amendment is having a moment of reckoning. Considered one of the crowning achievements of … Continued
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