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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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Negro
Political systems; Slavery
Term used to describe a man of African descent throughout the 18th to 20th centuries. The word negro is considered derogatory and unacceptable today.
Negress
Political systems; Slavery
Term used to describe a woman of African descent throughout the 18th to 20th centuries; the word is considered derogatory and unacceptable today.
Nomads
Political systems; Slavery
People who do not live in a single place but move, often seasonally, over a wide range for pasture to graze animals.
Octoroon
Political systems; Slavery
A person who has one white parent and one quadroon parent. Such a person would be 7/8ths white and 1/8th black.
Swap dog kin
Political systems; Slavery
Expression used on slave plantations to describe the close family feelings that many slaves had for each other even though they were not members of the same biological family. These feelings probably ...
Supplication
Political systems; Slavery
Pleading or appealing for something from a point of weakness.
