Involuntary servitude is the condition of a person laboring to benefit another against his will due to coercive influence directed toward him. While laboring to benefit another occurs in the condition of slavery, involuntary servitude does not connote the complete lack of freedom that is commonly referred to as slavery.
The thirteenth amendment to the United States Constitution makes involuntary servitude illegal under any United States jurisdiction whether at the hands of the U.S. government or in the private sphere (unless as punishment for a crime): "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".
Involuntaryservitude is a United States legal and constitutional term for a person laboring against that person's will to benefit another, under some form of coercion.
While laboring to benefit another occurs in the condition of slavery, involuntaryservitude does not connote the complete lack of freedom experienced in chattel slavery; involuntaryservitude may also refer to other forms of unfree labor.
Involuntaryservitude is not dependent upon compensation or its amount.
Involuntaryservitude is found only when a person is held to labor under conditions akin to peonage or slavery.
does not permit slavery or involuntaryservitude to be established or maintained through the operation of the criminal law by making it a crime to refuse to submit to the one or to render the service which would constitute the other.
Involuntaryservitude is prohibited except to punish crime." When considering involuntaryservitude issues we have assumed that the protection extended by article I, section 6, is coextensive with that accorded by the Thirteenth Amendment.
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