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0 pointsxhkkffbf7mo ago0 comments

Tolerated? Some welcomed it and some actively fought several wars against it and lost. Many tribes conducted some kind of economic transaction that traded land for something else.

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mistrial97mo ago· 2 in thread

Various California native people practiced slavery and indentured servitude on each other before the arrival of Spanish Catholics. The Mayan people went further than that.

iso16317mo ago

Still do. Slavery is perfectly legal in modern day USA, it's enshrined in the constitution

> 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.

Which is functionally the same as

> slavery or involuntary servitude, 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.

tatersolid7mo ago

Actually the two are very much not the same logically. The real text quoted first allows for servitude in limited circumstances. Your second modified version requires it.

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