Most of us are taught in our history classes that slavery ended with the passage of the 13th Amendment on January 31, 1865. At this juncture in history, a whole Civil War had been fought over the issue of slavery, and the prohibition of slavery had been cemented into law through the 13th Amendment. As the Union/the North, comprised of non-slaveholding free states, won the war, it would seem logical that they would ensure the institution of slavery would be forever prohibited from U.S. soil.
But history is rarely that simple.
The proposition of this video, then, is that slavery did not simply disappear. It transformed.