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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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Akan
Political systems; Slavery
Akan people are members of an ethnic group from areas of Ghana and the Ivory Coast, in West Africa, who share a common culture and language.
Affirmative action
Political systems; Slavery
A policy to increase representation from people in groups believed to have suffered discrimination.
Absentee owner
Political systems; Slavery
A plantation or estate owner who did not live on and manage the property directly.
Americas
Political systems; Slavery
The two continents of north and south America and the surrounding islands.
Ku Klux Klan
Political systems; Slavery
White racist organisation founder by former confederate soldiers in Tennessee in 1866, initially to prevent freed enslaved people voting and exercising other civil rights. Members wore white robes to ...
Law and Order party
Political systems; Slavery
A deliberate misnomer for pro-slavery settlers and Missouri Border Ruffians in Kansas during the period 1856 to 1861. Members of this party engaged in illegal voting, stuffing ballot boxes during ...
Lecompton Constitution
Political systems; Slavery
A proposed constitution allowing slavery in the state of Kansas prepared by pro-slavery politicians. This document was never approved by the voters of Kansas in open balloting. Despite this fact, ...
