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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Slavery

The United States equivalent of the Latin American free womb laws. Under the provisions of these laws, slaves born after a certain date would be freed on their 21st birthday. Slaves born before that ...

prejudice

Political systems; Slavery

A preconceived opinion, usually springing from feeling rather than evidence and balanced judgment.

Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

Political systems; Slavery

This document was made public on September 22, 1862, a few days after the Union victory at Antietam in Maryland. It gave the Confederacy 100 days to return to the Union, or the United States ...

Prigg v. the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Political systems; Slavery

In this case, the Supreme Court ruled in January, 1842, that the free states had no right to interfere with the Fugitive Slave Law. Many free states, like Vermont, responded with laws to counteract ...