Slavery

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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black

Political systems; Slavery

Often used in Britain to describe people of African and Caribbean (and sometimes Asian) origin.

black British

Political systems; Slavery

Used during the 1980s to stress the political unity between African, Caribbean, and South Asian people in Britain. Now mainly used to refer to British descendants of first generation Caribbean ...

Laws passed by southern legislatures to control freed blacks during the Reconstruction Era. The codes included severe punishments for vagrancy directed against freedmen who wandered away from their ...

Black Muslims

Political systems; Slavery

Members of an Islamic black nationalist and black separatist organization which began in the 1930's. Their most famous member, Malcolm X, broke with the organization in 1963 and went on to promote ...

Black Panther Party

Political systems; Slavery

This organization, founded in Oakland, California, in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, advocated violence as the only way to achieve black power in a country dominated by white supremacists.

Black Power

Political systems; Slavery

A militant movement which advocated separate social, economic, and political institutions for blacks. Advocates of the movement expressed pride in their African heritage and their achievements in ...