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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Emancipation

Political systems; Slavery

Being set free, or granted rights equal to others who already enjoy them (including allowing non-Anglicans to sit in Parliament and have other civic rights); the freeing of enslaved people from ...

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.

Efik

Political systems; Slavery

Efik people are members of an ethnic group from areas of Nigeria, in West Africa who share a common culture and language.

Edo

Political systems; Slavery

Edo people are members of an ethnic group from areas of Nigeria, in West Africa who share a common culture and language.

Dysentery

Political systems; Slavery

Bacterial infection of the intestine resulting in severe diarrhea.

Term used by Martin Luther King Jr. in his "I Have a Dream" speech to describe the actions of Alabama Governor George Wallace, as when Wallace, on June 11, 1963, stood in "the schoolhouse door" to ...

Integration

Political systems; Slavery

An ideal state of society in which all people, regardless of race or religion, can participate in the political process and use the same businesses equally. Children in such a society can all go to ...