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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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transatlantic
Political systems; Slavery
Across the Atlantic Ocean. Concerning countries on both sides of the Atlantic
transatlantic slave trade
Political systems; Slavery
A Eurocentric term used to describe the selling of Africans as chattel across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas.
transatlantic slavery
Political systems; Slavery
The institution that kept people as property, and submissive to work under the domination of others; the system of slavery that incorporates the trade of enslaved Africans, the culture of ...
triangular trade
Political systems; Slavery
The name often given to the transatlantic slave trade; describes the three sides to the route the slave ships took from Europe to West Africa, then to the Caribbean and the Americas and finally back ...
unassimilated
Political systems; Slavery
Failed to make or become similar to others; retaining distinctive differences.
underground railroad
Political systems; Slavery
A means of escape for thousands of enslaved people from the southern United States to the north and Canada operating from the late 1700s to 1862; it was called the Underground Railroad in 1831, and ...
