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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Political systems; Slavery

Now obsolete term for dysentery; inflammation and looseness of the bowels.

Promise made to freed slaves, especially those who had fought in the Union Army, by U.S. government officials. Aside from the Sherman Plan and the experiment at Davis Bend, Mississippi, nothing ever ...

frankpledge

Political systems; Slavery

A Norman system, devised in the 11th century to keep law and order, all those over 12 taking shared responsibility for behavior; operating units are in multiples of 10, ten households being a ...

free womb laws

Political systems; Slavery

The Latin American equivalent of the American post-nati emancipation laws. Slaves born after a certain date were to be kept as slaves until they reached the age of 21. Slaves born the day before ...

Freedmen's Bureau

Political systems; Slavery

Its actual title was The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Founded by the Federal Government in 1865, it oversaw the distribution of humanitarian aid to former slaves and the ...

Freedmen's Inquiry Commission

Political systems; Slavery

Formed in 1863, this committee investigated the steps necessary in undoing the harm done by slavery. Its foremost member was Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, founder of the Perkins School for the Blind and a ...