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Liam Buckler

Five US states ask residents if they want to 'wipe slavery' from record books forever

Five US states are asking voters if they want to 'wipe slavery ' from the record books.

Next month voters in Alabama, Louisiana, Vermont, Oregon and Tennessee will get the chance to wipe slavery from their states' constitutions forever, thanks to a pending ballot initiative.

Slavery, which was outlawed in the US in 1865, has remained on the books in nearly twenty states but has not been used since the Civil War.

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