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People likely voted for not repealing the provision allowing involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime and not for keeping slavery.
Whoever thought combining those two things in one vote was a good idea is an idiot
You can be enslaved in the US for the crime of not having enough money to afford a place to live.
I always forget you Americans hate social welfare systems.
Yeah unlike all those people I see living in the streets in Germany, who do that by choice