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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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quadroon
Political systems; Slavery
A person with one white parent and one mulatto parent. Such a person would be 3/4ths white and 1/4th black.
Quaker
Political systems; Slavery
Member of the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers, a radical nonconformist Christian religious group established by George Fox (1624 - 91) with a strong sense of morality and social justice.
racism
Political systems; Slavery
A belief that one group of people is inferior, or superior to another because to their race.
radical Republicans
Political systems; Slavery
Politicians who believed that black people were equal to whites in every respect and that it was morally wrong for black people not to have the same liberties and rights that whites have. Thaddeus ...
rebellion
Political systems; Slavery
Organized armed resistance against established government or authority.
Reconstruction
Political systems; Slavery
Term used for the period following the Civil War, about 1865 to 1877, during which the U.S. Government attempted to control the state governments of the South and tried to bring the southern states ...
Red Strings
Political systems; Slavery
Southern equivalent of the Copperheads. The name was derived from the identifying symbol worn by Southerners who were loyal to the Union. Their secret organizations were known as the Sons of America ...
