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Slavery
Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are submissive to work under the domination of others.
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freedom riders
Political systems; Slavery
In the summer of 1861, black and white college students, ministers, and other interested persons rode on buses through the South challenging the "Jim Crow" laws. Some of these students were killed.
Freeport Doctrine
Political systems; Slavery
On August 27, 1858, in Freeport, Illinois, during the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Senator Stephen A. Douglas suggested that states being formed in the Western Territories could keep slavery out by ...
Free-Soil party
Political systems; Slavery
A political party active between 1848 and 1854. Its members were adamantly opposed to slavery being spread through the Western Territories and the land gained in the war with Mexico. Their slogan was ...
gang labor
Political systems; Slavery
Workers who toiled in the fields collectively all doing the same task at the same time.
Gold Coast
Political systems; Slavery
The name given to an area of the West African coast by early European traders who traded for gold.
