Voters in five states this election season were tasked with deciding whether their state constitution should continue to allow slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime.
Tennessee, Alabama, Oregon and Vermont chose during the Nov. 8 midterms to make changes, while Louisiana did not.
To discuss what this means for these states and beyond, the PBS NewsHour’s Nicole Ellis spoke with Yale Law Professor and co-author of the ACLU report, Claudia Flores and Raumesh Akbari, the Tennessee state senator who proposed the amendment in her state
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