> How does a person even make the claim that the abolition of slavery didn't happen? We don't have slavery now, so if we ever did, we obviously ended it. On the other hand, if you make the claim that slavery didn't happen, or that it wasn't that bad, I can't easily prove you wrong just by pointing to the current state of the world.
It's funny you use this example given that the Constitution still famously has a pretty massive loophole that allows for legal slavery:
> 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.
It's funny you use this example given that the Constitution still famously has a pretty massive loophole that allows for legal slavery:
> 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.