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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Monopoly

Political systems; Slavery

Exclusive ownership or control in the trade in particular goods or service.

Missionary

Political systems; Slavery

Person sent to educate others about a religious faith.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Political systems; Slavery

Otherwise known as SNCC (or SNICK), this organisation was founded in 1960 in North Carolina for the purpose of organising freedom rides through the South and voter registration drives. Stokely ...

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Political systems; Slavery

Founded in 1957 in Atlanta, Georgia, by Martin Luther King, Jr., and others, the Conference sought to attain equal rights for blacks and other minorities through non-violent protest.

Before the Civil War and well into the twentieth century, Southerners have believed that their state governments had the right to block or overrule any Federal legislation with which they disagreed. ...

Stalwarts

Political systems; Slavery

Radical Republicans of the Reconstruction era who supported Ulysses S. Grant for a third term as President and the more repressive measures of Reconstruction of the South. They also opposed civil ...