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Political systems

The organisation and interaction of the members that make up the governing power of a social community or state.

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Underground Railroad

Political systems; Slavery

Term used for the route used by runaway slaves to reach freedom either in the North or Canada. Eber M. Pettit wrote of the URR, "It had, like all other railroads, its officers and ...

United States League of Gileadites

Political systems; Slavery

On January 15, 1851, in Springfield, Massachusetts, John Brown, then a wool merchant, organized the Gileadites, a band of free blacks and runaway slaves, for the purpose of ...

vagrancy laws

Political systems; Slavery

Part of the Black Codes used to keep former slaves in a state of enforced servitude. At the beginning of Reconstruction, many southern states passed laws proclaiming that any ...

venture

Political systems; Slavery

A commercial undertaking, dealing with goods or assets in the hope that it will bring profit to those involved.

voodoo

Political systems; Slavery

Beliefs and practices with a strong emphasis on magic and the spirit world, associated particularly with the island of Haiti, in the Caribbean, and thought to have been brought by ...