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

Political systems; Slavery

The institution that kept people as property, and submissive to work under the domination of others.

smallpox

Political systems; Slavery

Acute contagious disease caused by a virus, with fever and pustules, and with a high death rate; now eradicated world-wide.

snow

Political systems; Slavery

Small two mast, square-rigged sailing ship, similar to a brig.

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Political systems; Slavery

Founded in 1957 in Atlanta, Georgia, by Martin Luther King, Jr., and others, the Conference sought to attain equal rights for blacks and other minorities through non-violent protest.

Spingarn Medal

Political systems; Slavery

Award given to an outstanding black American each year. Joel Elias Spingarn, a white leader of the NAACP instituted the medal in 1914.

stalwarts

Political systems; Slavery

Radical Republicans of the Reconstruction era who supported Ulysses S. Grant for a third term as President and the more repressive measures of Reconstruction of the South. They also opposed civil ...

Before the Civil War and well into the twentieth century, Southerners have believed that their state governments had the right to block or overrule any Federal legislation with which they disagreed. ...