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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Named after a popular minstrel show character, they are laws passed in the post-Reconstruction era between 1880s-1960s in the South of the US to prevent black people from gaining political power and ...

Lords

Political systems; Slavery

Short for the House of Lords, the second chamber of the UK Parliament, originally made up of hereditary members or peers, some Anglican bishops, and senior judges (as the Lords is the court of final ...

Maafa

Political systems; Slavery

Derived from a Kiswahili word meaning disaster, or terrible occurrence. It is used to refer to the enslavement of African people by Europeans. The definition also refers to the subsequent loss of ...

Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Housing

Political systems; Slavery

A council formed in Chicago on August 26, 1966, to implement fair housing practises in that city.

Ivory Coast

Political systems; Slavery

A country on the coast of West Africa, officially called Cote d'Ivoire; European traders gave the area the name after the large amounts of ivory found there.

Log books

Political systems; Slavery

Written record book of the navigation and other occurrences on board a ship, kept on a daily basis.

Slave

Political systems; Slavery

A servant devoid of freedom and personal rights; one who is the property of another whether by capture, purchase or birth. The English term slave was first used in the sixteenth century. Before that ...