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The Fight To Remove Slavery Language From California’s Constitution
By Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media
Sunday February 19, 2023, San Diego International
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Samual Nathaniel Brown said he is not surprised that Assemblymember Lori Wilson (D-Suisun City) picked up the baton to carry on the fight to eradicate the phrase “involuntary servitude except as a punishment to crime” from California’s Constitution. Brown, who contributed to writing Assembly Constitutional Amendment (ACA) 3, the California Abolition Act, while he was incarcerated in prison, stood on the west steps of the state Capitol in Sacramento with Wilson when she reintroduced a new iteration of the legislation that failed to pass in the State Senate last year.
This time around, Brown,
Wilson and other supporters of the End Slavery in California Act say they are determined to retire the See REMOVE page 2