The 13th Amendment did not Abolish Slavery

Slavery was not abolished even after the Thirteenth Amendment. There were four million freedmen and most of them on the same plantation, doing the same work that they did before emancipation, except as their work had been interrupted and changed by the upheaval of war. Moreover, they were getting about the same wages and apparently were going to be subject to slave codes modified only in name.

Slavery was and still is, under the Constitution LEGAL as punishment for a crime, thus the advent of what is known today as the Prison Industrial Complex. The media, tv, music, and the general environment that young black men grow up in in America is set up to steer them back into "legalized" slavery.

The 13th Amendment Specifically Reads: 

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

So the key word is EXCEPT, meaning that there are instances such as punisment for a crime where slavery or involuntary servitude are legal under the Constitution of the United States. Thus, the Prison Industrial Complex is LEGAL Slavery.