What is the underlying motive for the 13th amendment leaving a loophole for slave labor ?

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

The underlying motive for the 13th amendment leaving a loophole for slave labor was the possibility to punish people who had committed any crime with slavery.

When one reads the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution, you notice the above-mentioned loophole: "...except as a punishment for crime..."

This loophole has been used in the history of the United States to send people to jail and punish African Americans in periods of history such as the case of the Jim Crow legislation and the Black Codes in the southern states.

The 13th Amendment was ratified in 1865 and was one of the three amendments that were passed during the period called "Reconstruction" at the end of the American Civil War."

what if dreaming is our natural state, and we only wake to collect information for our dreams.

if we were to fully devote our bodies, minds, and consciousness to dreaming, how far would it go? we could essentially reach a new plain of existence were we here in these bodies are sleeping, but an entire universe of endless possibilities, happening right in our head.

that could be the way we reach some of these scientific feats that we all seem to want. we could connect to many other things. that could be the way we connect to extra-terrestrial, and even spirits of the dead.

dreaming is something that humans take for ranted, when really, it could be the key to the universe.