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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colonization

Political systems; Slavery

A process of one country taking over another in order to exploit it. Many people in the U.S. wishing to end slavery felt that colonization, or sending blacks back to Africa, was the only viable ...

colony

Political systems; Slavery

A territory partially or completely controlled by another country (often called the mother country or motherland) and settled by those people.

A form of governance proposed and supported by John C. Calhoun of South Carolina and George Fitzhugh of Virginia. The whole concept started with the false assumption that African Americans are like ...

commemorate

Political systems; Slavery

To preserve in memory by a celebration or ceremony.

commodity

Political systems; Slavery

An article of trade, especially a raw material or product.

compensation

Political systems; Slavery

Recompense, intended to make amends, often with a payment.

Compromise of 1850

Political systems; Slavery

This act called for the formation of a system run by appointed commissioners who would oversee all fugitive slave cases. This act prevented fugitive slaves from having access to the state courts ...