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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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Overseer
Political systems; Slavery
Person on a plantation paid a wage to organise the work of the enslaved people; manager.
Plantation
Political systems; Slavery
A large area of farmland, or estate, planted with particular crops.
West Indies
Political systems; Slavery
Islands of the Caribbean (so called as Columbus thought he had reached India)
White supremacy
Political systems; Slavery
A doctrine promoted by the Ku Klux Klan, the American Nazi party, and other similar groups which believe that only white people should have political and economic power in the United States. White ...
Yacub's plan
Political systems; Slavery
According to Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Black Muslims, about 6,300 years ago everyone was black. But this all changed because of a mad scientist called Yacub on the island of Patmos. Yacub came ...
Wilmot Proviso
Political systems; Slavery
Named for David Wilmot, Senator from Pennsylvania, this 1846 bill, if passed, would have banned slavery from the territory gained during the Mexican War. The measure never made it out of the Senate.
Whitney's cotton gin
Political systems; Slavery
Eli Whitney's invention in 1793 of an engine that separated the seeds from the cotton plant, and greatly increased cotton cultivation and the demand for enslaved people (especially female) in the US.
