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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cakewalk

Political systems; Slavery

According to Harriet Janis and Rudi Blesh in They All Played Ragtime, the cakewalk originated in the Antebellum period among slaves wishing to mock the high strutting ways of their masters. On ...

capoeira

Political systems; Slavery

Brazilian fight dance developed by enslaved Africans in Brazil.

carib

Political systems; Slavery

Indigenous people who inhabited the Caribbean islands and parts of the neighboring mainland.

Caribbean

Political systems; Slavery

The islands off the east coast of North, Central and South America that were called the West Indies by Columbus.

carnival

Political systems; Slavery

Initially a festival preceding the Catholic season of Lent (a period of fasting from Ash Wednesday to Easter weekend); now refers to general annual festivities, usually with a procession and ...

Term applied to Northerners coming to the South to run schools for the freedmen, to reorganize political institutions in the South, or to conduct business. The name was derived from the carpetbags in ...

Chartism

Political systems; Slavery

A populist reform movement of the 1830s-40s, which set out a manifesto called The People's Charter aimed at increasing the rights of the working classes.