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How To Fight for Justice in Your State and Community in 2025
Vera Institute | January 7, 2025
Anti-slavery movement charts its path forward
Politico | December 14, 2024
Samora Pinderhughes Releases New Single ‘Am I Human?’
Broadway World | December 6, 2024
Why did Nevada vote to ban slavery, when California didn’t?
High Country News | November 26, 2024
Nevada just banned ‘slavery and involuntary servitude’ in prisons. Why didn’t California?
Los Angeles Times | November 17, 2024
The 13th Amendment
Black Arm of the Law Podcast | November 12, 2024
I’m Incarcerated in California. Here’s What Prop 6 Not Passing Means for People Like Me
TIME | November 13, 2024
California voters reject measure that would have banned forced prison labor
AP News | November 11, 2024
A review of key 2024 ballot measures
Economic Policy Institute | November 7, 2024
Nevada voted to make abortion a constitutional right. What to know about key ballot measures
AP News | November 6, 2024
Prop. 6: ‘No’ votes lead slightly on prison labor intiative in early results copy
Fox 40 News | November 5, 2024
November 5 vote could mark a turning point in ending forced labour in US prisons
Walk Free | November 4, 2024

Badges & incidents - slavery in practice

Texas’ Plantation Prisons: Inside a 200-year history of forced labor shrouded in secrecy
Texas Observer | July 15, 2024
Press Release: Powerful Evidence of Involuntary Labor in Colorado’s Prisons Comes to Light in Plaintiffs’ Request for Class Certification
Towards Justice | July 11, 2024
Even In Progressive States Like New York, And Even Today, Slavery Is Stylish
NewsOne | July 4, 2024
Judge Orders Changes to Louisiana Prison Labor Program Likened to ’19th Century Slavery’
The Appeal | July 3, 2024
Mississippi’s Lifetime Felony Voting Ban Unconstitutional, Appeals Court Rules
Mississippi Free Press | August 4, 2023
Ferguson, Missouri, Agrees to Pay $4.5 Million to Settle ‘Debtors’ Prison’ Lawsuit
Associated Press | February 27, 2024
U.N. report calls U.S. prison labor system “contemporary slavery”
Freedom United | October 4, 2023
Lifetime felony voting bans are cruel and unusual punishment
Reuters | August 10, 2023
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Our Blog

Savannah Eldrige in front of the Texas State Capitol and the New Texas African American Monument
Spotlighting Organizers, May 2023
Lead Organizer Savannah Eldrige & Abolish Slavery Virginia Organizer Amber Phelps talk about what got them into this work.
National Coalition Launches to Abolish Constitutional Slavery and Involuntary Servitude in America
The Abolish Slavery National Network (ASNN) today announced the launch of a nationwide effort to remove exceptions for slavery and involuntary servitude...
How Colorado became the first state to abolish slavery AND involuntary servitude
When Colorado became the first state in the union to abolish slavery from its constitution last people were shocked it hadn’t been done sooner. Many weren’t even aware that slavery was still legal.
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Max Parthas, Co-Director of State Operations

Max Parthas is an internationally recognized Spoken Word Artist and American Slavery Abolitionist. In addition to numerous awards for his art, he is the recipient of the Missouri CURE Marc Taylor Activism Award, the Will Bell Humanitarian Award, and the “In The Spirit of Malcom X'' award from MX Media. 

Max is the current Acting Director for the Paul Cuffee Abolitionist Center in Sumpter, SC., Co-Director of State Operations for the Abolish Slavery National Network. Abolishslavery.us. and Co-host/Executive producer of Abolition Today (a unique online modern- slavery abolition episodic master class with an international audience.) abolitiontoday.org