"Neither slavery nor involuntary [1] servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, [2] shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

1. This clause continues to be skirted by prostitution rings, forced labor gangs and foreign dignitaries, such as the Saudi Princess who held a Kenyan and two other women as slaves in California in 2013, until the Kenyan escaped and summoned the police. Before charges could be filed the Bush family had made arrangement for the Princess to jet out of the country. Like many early 'indentures" such as Thomas Hellier, the Kenyan girl claimed to have been duped by an ad for paid services. Saudi employers are in the habit of confiscating identification and travel papers from their servants and holding them hostage, even unto death. This occurred in Maryland in the 1700s, with Arуan Indians being offered paid positions in London by British merchants who then sold them as chattel in the plantations.

2. This resulted in slave labor being diverted into the corrections system, which was pioneered in Pennsylvania and throughout the south by former slave owners, such as the Quakers. During the 1930s and 40s Black and White American convicts were worked to death and used in biological warfare experiments, which shall be the subject of a future article. Some American prisons use slave labor to this day, and, just as most Americans of the 1700s thought that selling white children to slave under lethal conditions was what those children deserved for being born poor, so do most Americans of today agree with slave labor in the prison system.