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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Migrate

Political systems; Slavery

To move from one place and settle in another, especially abroad.

Term used for the route used by runaway slaves to reach freedom either in the North or Canada. Eber M. Pettit wrote of the URR, "It had, like all other railroads, its officers and stations, engineers ...

Venture

Political systems; Slavery

A commercial undertaking, dealing with goods or assets in the hope that it will bring profit to those involved.

Vagrancy laws

Political systems; Slavery

Part of the Black Codes used to keep former slaves in a state of enforced servitude. At the beginning of Reconstruction, many southern states passed laws proclaiming that any African American who was ...

United States League of Gileadites

Political systems; Slavery

On January 15, 1851, in Springfield, Massachusetts, John Brown, then a wool merchant, organised the Gileadites, a band of free blacks and runaway slaves, for the purpose of defeating slave catchers ...

Underground railroad

Political systems; Slavery

A means of escape for thousands of enslaved people from the southern United States to the north and Canada operating from the late 1700s to 1862; it was called the Underground Railroad in 1831, and ...

Triangular trade

Political systems; Slavery

The name often given to the transatlantic slave trade; describes the three sides to the route the slave ships took from Europe to West Africa, then to the Caribbean and the Americas and finally back ...