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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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Post-nati emancipation laws
Political systems; Slavery
The United States equivalent of the Latin American free womb laws. Under the provisions of these laws, slaves born after a certain date would be freed on their 21st birthday. Slaves born before that ...
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Political systems; Slavery
This document was made public on September 22, 1862, a few days after the Union victory at Antietam in Maryland. It gave the Confederacy 100 days to return to the Union, or the United States ...
Prigg v. the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Political systems; Slavery
In this case, the Supreme Court ruled in January, 1842, that the free states had no right to interfere with the Fugitive Slave Law. Many free states, like Vermont, responded with laws to counteract ...
Popular sovereignty
Political systems; Slavery
Idea proposed by Senator Lewis Cass of Michigan during the debate over the Wilmot Proviso in 1846. According to this doctrine, states wishing to enter the Union should decide the issue of slavery for ...
Polygenism
Political systems; Slavery
Theory that all human races are separate species. This idea, long the dominant theory of northern scientists in the United States during the nineteenth century, has been proved wrong.
Privilege slave
Political systems; Slavery
An enslaved African given to a ship's officer by the slave ship owner as a special honor, or privilege.
Privateer
Political systems; Slavery
A privately owned war-ship, or its captain, licenced by one government to raid the shipping of an enemy country.
