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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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drapetomania
Political systems; Slavery
According to Dr. Samuel Cartwright of Louisiana, this was one of two diseases from which slaves suffered. Cartwright said that this disease caused slaves to run away. Dr. Jonathan Miller, an English ...
Dred Scott v. Sanborn
Political systems; Slavery
This Supreme Court decision stated that black people in the U.S. had no rights as citizens. Chief Justice Roger Taney of Maryland further used this ruling to declare that the Missouri Compromise was ...
Dunning School interpretation
Political systems; Slavery
Early in the twentieth century, Professor William A. Dunning of Columbia University and his graduate students assembled a series of papers in order to prove that radical Republicans were largely ...
dysaethesia aethiopica
Political systems; Slavery
A second disease which Dr. Cartwright claimed slaves suffered from. Slaves having this disease were apt to commit intentional acts of mischief. Cartwright claimed that the cure for this disease and ...
dysentery
Political systems; Slavery
Bacterial infection of the intestine resulting in severe diarrhea.
eastern slave trade
Political systems; Slavery
A trade in enslaved people, mainly from Africa, to the Middle East, North Africa and India; also known as the Oriental slave trade.
