[Aevery_Freeman]

By 1865 America had written the 13th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution prohibiting slavery throughout the country

Then, by 1913, the re-instituted slavery with the Sixteenth Amendment.

If an authority has first dibs on your labors, you are a slave - or worse; a sharecropper in your own nation.

[Tublecane]

Serf is better terminology, though their three days or so of work for the landlord probably added up to less than the burden on us.

[Casie]

Sad, but true!