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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Pidgin

Political systems; Slavery

A simplified language developed as a result of colonialism. As the Caribbean islands were colonised their populations grew to include Europeans, Africans and Indians. The fact that they spoke ...

One of two legal strategies used by Southerners to keep black people and poor whites from voting. (See literacy tests.) When a person registered to vote, he or she became eligible to pay a local poll ...

Pattyrollers

Political systems; Slavery

After Nat Turner's slave uprising in 1831, Southerners had young white men patrol the areas between plantations to prevent runaway slaves from reaching the North and freedom, and to keep local slaves ...

Plessy v. Ferguson

Political systems; Slavery

In this Supreme Court decision issued in 1896, the doctrine of "separate but equal" was ruled to be Constitutional. This ruling protected the South's "Jim Crow" laws for nearly 60 years before they ...

Outward passage

Political systems; Slavery

The first stage in the transatlantic slave trade with ships carrying goods from Europe to trade in Africa for captured Africans (see also Triangular trade)