[hanamizu]

“This was the amendment advocated by southern slaveholders and they won.”

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Southern slave owners had virtually no influence on national politics in 1865 when the 13th was ratified. It was passed in the House in January 1865. Very few slave holders or people championing the slave holders’ cause in the House in 1865. The law professor at UCI should know her history better.

Punishment at hard labor was hardly confined to the Southern States. Someone had to break those rocks, why not prisoners? This is not to say that Southern states didn’t impose labor on convicts and that many were black.

This is just another attempt to stir up grievance in the black community. “The 13th Amendment didn’t free all the slaves—there’s still legal slavery in the U.S.!” Such B.S.

And Prof. Goodwin, UCI should be aware that neither Presidents no “President-Elects” play no role in passage and ratification of Constitutional Amendments.

[Red Badger]

Civics 101 is never part of a liberals education.

As for ‘history’, that began at breakfast this morning................