The 13th Amendment explicitly prohibits slavery in all forms, except as criminal punishment, yet as many as 60,000 native-born Americans and both lawfully-admitted and undocumented immigrants are forced into bonded labor, sex trafficking, or forced, unpaid servitude.
http://www.mintpressnews.com/slavery-alive-well-america-fueled-need-cheap-labor/199686/
And that doesn't include the legal slavery in the US prison system or the myriad of people who do not make a living wage.
Update: Apparently slavery and/or indentured servitude is alive and well in Pakistan, too:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-freeing-of-a-slave-in-pakistan-sheds-light-on-global-problem-a-1006084.html
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