Amendment 13 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. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Okay, slavery is wrong no matter what with this I agree. We need to abolish where it says "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. " That part of the 13th Amendment makes slaves out of prisoners and it is a part of Reconstruction ism of the South and needs to be abolished! Freeing slaves was not what was on Lincolns mind if it was he would not have inserted "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted," into the 13th Amendment. The majority of African Americans make up the prisoners in the evil corrupt prison system. So basically the 13th Amendment states that slavery is wrong but if you go to jail or prison then it is okay to make the prisoners into slaves. This part only needs taken out of the 13th Amendment. The 13th Amendment needs to be read or stated as: 1.Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. It is time to correct the wording of the 13th Amendment otherwise anyone in the prison system is a slave and the 13th Amendment still makes slavery legal as long as the person is in prison. Slavery of any kind is evil even if the person is in jail or prison!