By Kathryn Rickmeyer
From TennBEAT
It’s not right or left. It’s right or wrong.
Five years after the Civil War’s end, the Tennessee Constitution was amended to prohibit slavery — but one exception remained:
“That slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, are forever prohibited in this state,” Article 1, Section 33 of the Constitution still says….