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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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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 stations, engineers ...
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 defeating slave catchers ...
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 African American who was ...
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 enslaved people ...
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Political systems; Slavery
This act ended the use of literacy tests and the poll tax as methods for excluding citizens from voting.