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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Bleeding Kansas

Political systems; Slavery

Term used to describe the bloody war in Kansas started in 1854 between pro-slavery advocates and abolitionists in that territory.

body servants

Political systems; Slavery

At the beginning of the Civil War, many Confederate officers and enlisted men brought slaves with them to cook and clean for them. These slaves, called "body servants," were very loyal to their ...

branded

Political systems; Slavery

Marked permanently with a hot iron as identifiable property; traditionally used on cattle and livestock as well as on some enslaved people to denote ownership.

British Empire

Political systems; Slavery

A system of dependencies, mostly colonies, throughout the world that were under the sovereignty and administration of the British Crown and government over a period of about three hundred years.

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Political systems; Slavery

Organization started in 1925 by A. Philip Randolph for the purpose of protecting blacks on the job, promoting fair employment practices, and ending segregation in the military.

Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

Political systems; Slavery

On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously decided in favor of Brown, stating that the concept of "separate but equal" was impossible to maintain, and that separate facilities were always ...