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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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inhumanity
Political systems; Slavery
The state of being brutal, cruel, barbarous, without feeling, indifferent to the suffering of others.
integration
Political systems; Slavery
An ideal state of society in which all people, regardless of race or religion, can participate in the political process and use the same businesses equally. Children in such a society can all go to ...
interposition
Political systems; Slavery
Term used by Martin Luther King Jr. in his "I Have a Dream" speech to describe the actions of Alabama Governor George Wallace, as when Wallace, on June 11, 1963, stood in "the schoolhouse door" to ...
Ivory Coast
Political systems; Slavery
A country on the coast of West Africa, officially called Cote d'Ivoire; European traders gave the area the name after the large amounts of ivory found there.
Jim Crow laws
Political systems; Slavery
Named after a popular minstrel show character, they are laws passed in the post-Reconstruction era between 1880s-1960s in the South of the US to prevent black people from gaining political power and ...
