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On the 26th February 2012, 17 year old Trayvon Martin , a high school student from Miami Gardens in Florida, had been visiting his father (Tracy Martin) in a gated community in Sanford, Florida. On this day specifically, Trayvon had gone out in the evening to go to a local shop where he then purchased a bag of skittles and a can of Arizona tea. On his way back home, George Zimmerman - who was a neighbourhood watch captain for that gated community - saw Trayvon from his SUV and called the police due to  'a suspicious person' in the neighbourhood. Zimmerman was instructed not to get out of his car or follow him and leave it up to the police. Zimmerman did not listen to this but instead proceeded to follow Trayvon leading to an altercation between the two , in which gunshots that led to Trayvon's death were eventually fired. His last words were ' what are you following me for ? ' It was not until Martin's dad called to file a missing person report claim that news o...

The 13th Amendment was passed on January 31st 1865. This was the year that slavery in the U.S was supposedly 'abolished' with it fully taking effect by December 1865. So, what actually is the 13th Amendment? Well, the 13th Amendment is one of the 27 amendments in the U.S constitution. This amendments focuses on ending slavery and states that "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." But read that middle bit again - "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted" - and keep that in mind for later. When slavery in the United States supposedly 'ended' in 1865, at the end of the civil war, America would find themselves needing a way to make the money and rebuild themselves from the loss they would face with abolishing slavery. However now that slavery an...