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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Many Southerners believed that the states had a right to leave the United States if they so desired. This is called the principle of secession. While nothing is said about the right of secession in ...

Second Great Awakening

Political systems; Slavery

Term used for the wave of Protestant revivals occurring in the early 19th century. The Bible societies and moral reform organisations formed during this period advocated temperance, women's suffrage, ...

Seasoning

Political systems; Slavery

A period during which enslaved people newly arrived from Africa were initiated into the labour regime; new enslaved people were given marginally lesser tasks in the seasoning period as their ability ...

Segregation

Political systems; Slavery

A state of society where people are separated by race or religious practices, especially in the use of public facilities, employment, education, and housing; usually with a denial of political rights ...

Scalawag

Political systems; Slavery

A Southerner who, during Reconstruction, showed himself or herself to be loyal to the federal government, and cooperated with the northern carpetbaggers.