Another Name for Slavery-13 amendment

In  Adams book chapter 12, I read about the 13th amendment and I was just stunned!

SLAVERY AND INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE

THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT

SECTION 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.









What amazes me more is that prior to that, Abraham Lincoln created a version of the 13 amendment to state:

No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.

(See US House of Representatives, 106th Congress, 2nd Session, The Constitution of the United States of America: Unratified Amendments, Doc. No. 106-214)
 Slavery never really ended. As with everything else our grade school taught us that slavery was ended by the civil war and the the Emancipation Proclamation proclaimed the freedom of slaves!They sure did fail to mention that "oh by the way the 13 amendment  allows slavery"  Now the book also states that prior to the 13th amendment whites were the dominant color within prisons but after slavery ended and the 13th amendment was ratified did the population of black people grow within the prison.  So now there were many black people who were criminals and had debt just to have them behind bars were slavery was okay.  Doing others people's work for free was not over.

You know it is sad to think that we get feed what they(I don't even know who to blame?!) only want us to know about our history. I'm thankful that this class has opened our minds and understanding to what it truly is.