Should slavery be reinstated?

[Peter]

According to dictionary.com:

Slavery =  The state of one bound in servitude as the property of a slaveholder or household.

Its more than just involuntary servitude to be in slavery, you are also the property of somebody/something else. The state in committing people to hard labour sentences doesn't commit them into slavery because that would suggest that the state owns the convict and therefore is able to be bought and sold like plywood.

There is a marked difference and when viewing the 13th it is important to consider that involuntary servitude and slavery are not equivalent concepts: Involuntary servitude still occurs today as punishment for crimes, but slavery does not.