Research and Reports

(Much of this list is lovingly borrowed from the Abolish Slavery National Network website, our national affiliate)

The Prison Industry Corporate Database

Corporate Accountability Lab: Breaking Free of the Thirteenth Amendment’s Slavery Exception

Citing Slavery Project

A Cost-Benefit Analysis: The Impact of Ending Slavery and Involuntary Servitude as Criminal Punishment and Paying Incarcerated Workers Fair Wages (2024) 

Uneven Justice: State Rates of Incarceration by Race and Ethnicity 

Worth Rises: The Prison Industry 2020

The Convict Lease System by Ida B. Wells

Taken from the third chapter of "The Reason why the colored American is not in the World's Columbian Exposition," published in 1893.

History is a Weapon: "I Denounce the So-Called Emancipation as a Stupendous Fraud" by Frederick Douglass (1888)

ACLU: "Captive Labor: Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers" (2022)

Corporate Accountability Lab: "CONVICTED: How Corporations Exploit the Thirteenth Amendment's Loophole for Profit" (2022)

Abolition Labor: the Fight to End Prison Slavery by Andrew Ross, Tommaso Bardelli, and Aiyuba Thomas (2024)

***For a look at recent salient academic articles and scholarly works, check out this post: 📚 Thirteen Scholarly Articles on the 13th Amendment, Prison Labor & Slavery Abolition.***