13th Amendment scholars: see, this is why you don’t treat emancipation as a settled project.
Professa Murray
a glaring omission from much of the convo about the Delaney Hall labor and hunger strike imo is the fact that *these people shouldn't be laboring in the first place*
this is slavery, & even the 13th Amendment's 'punishment for a crime' exception doesn't apply!
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
The Delaney Hall Strike participants haven’t been convicted of anything—and are still being forced to work for nothing.
