A catalytic converter is a device that uses a catalyst to convert three harmful compounds in car exhaust into harmless compounds. The three harmful compounds are: 1  Hydrocarbons (in the form of unburned gasoline).
Answers.comÂ® is making the world better one answer at a time. Slavery ended permanently in Louisiana in 1865. The end of slavery was a direct result of the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
A young man is punished in a forced labor camp in Georgia in the 1930s. Click to see more images from the Age of Neoslavery.. Slavery By Another Name. In Slavery by Another Name, Douglas Blackmon of the Wall Street Journal argues that slavery did not end in the United States with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862. He writes that it continued for another 80 years, in what he calls an Age of Neoslavery.. The slavery that survived long past emancipation was an offense permitted by the nation, Blackmon writes, perpetrated across an enormous region over many years and involving thousands of extraordinary characters..