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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abolition

Political systems; Slavery

Literally to bring to an end; in this context the campaign to end the slave trade and slavery.

abolitionist

Political systems; Slavery

Usually someone from the North who supported the movement to end the transatlantic slave trade and slavery. They fell into two basic camps: 1) those who believed that black people should be fully ...

absentee owner

Political systems; Slavery

A plantation or estate owner who did not live on and manage the property directly.

affirmative action

Political systems; Slavery

A policy to increase representation from people in groups believed to have suffered discrimination.

In colonial days right up to the early nineteenth century, Africans were legally kidnapped and sold as slaves in the new World. The United States banned this trade in 1808, and declared it an act of ...