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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Electoral reform, or Reform as it became known, was a movement in the 1800s for increasing the democratization of Parliament and voting rights; social reform was concerned with changing conditions ...

reparation

Political systems; Slavery

Making amends, compensation; claim to payments to the descendants of the enslaved and to Africa by those who benefited economically from slavery.

repatriation

Political systems; Slavery

To return, or be returned, home, to one's native land.

repression

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To put down and keep down by force any active general opposition or rebellion.

resistance

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To strive against, or refuse to comply (sometimes secretly) with a decision or an established way of doing things.

return passage

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The third stage in the transatlantic slave trade with ships carrying items grown or made in the Caribbean or the Americas, such as sugar or tobacco, to Europe to sell (see also Triangular trade)