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Eight states. On the record.

Since 2018, eight states have removed the exception from their constitutions. This is how it was reported, state by state, and how the network carried the record beyond the states.

The count

Colorado 2018. Nebraska and Utah 2020. Alabama, Oregon, Tennessee, and Vermont 2022. Nevada 2024.

A removal is the beginning of enforcement, not the end of it. Colorado's first order came eight years after its vote.

The removals

How the country heard it.

2018
Colorado

Amendment A. The first removal, covered on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.

2020
Nebraska

Amendment 1. News coverage.

2020
Utah

News coverage.

2022
Alabama

News coverage.

2022
Oregon

News coverage.

2022
Tennessee

Amendment 3. News coverage.

2022
Vermont

News coverage.

2024
Nevada

Question 4. News coverage.

News segments are the broadcasters' footage, held here for education. Print and online coverage is collected under In the Press. The network's own record is below.

From the network

Beyond the states.

Where the exception rests on a federal layer, the network carries the record to the forums that can hear it.

Slavery by Colonial Means

Dennis Febo, National Lead Organizer, before the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization: slavery as a jus cogens violation in Puerto Rico. Petitioner No. 230.

Article II, Section 12

Puerto Rico's constitution carries the exception in Section 12, which the island can amend; the federal layer beneath it belongs to Congress. The Section 12 record.

In the hearing room

Testimony.

What the network says when a legislature asks. Recorded by the network and posted on its channel.

Dennis Febo, New Hampshire Senate

Testimony before the New Hampshire Senate committee, 2024, for ending slavery and involuntary servitude in the state, including as punishment.

Ophelia Burnett, New Hampshire Senate

American Friends Service Committee, New Hampshire Program. Testimony before the same committee, 2024.

Assemblymember Shavonda E. Sumter, New Jersey

On ending slavery in New Jersey, 2024. The sponsor's case in her own words.

Films and documentaries

Watch.

2016
13th

Ava DuVernay. The full feature, as Netflix posted it to YouTube.

 
Slave State

Policy Films. The trailer.

Angola Do You Hear Us?
Aubin Pictures. Watch at the film's site.
 
Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison

Aubin Pictures. Not on YouTube; opens the film's own page.

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You do not amend slavery. You abolish it.