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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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Reform
Political systems; Slavery
Electoral reform, or Reform as it became known, was a movement in the 1800s for increasing the democratisation of Parliament and voting rights; social reform was concerned with changing conditions ...
Reparation
Political systems; Slavery
Making amends, compensation; claim to payments to the descendants of the enslaved and to Africa by those who benefited economically from slavery.
Racism
Political systems; Slavery
A belief that one group of people is inferior, or superior to another because to their race.
Abolitionist
Political systems; Slavery
Usually someone from the North who supported the movement to end the transatlantic slave trade and slavery. They fell into two basic camps: 1) those who believed that black people should be fully ...
Abolition
Political systems; Slavery
Literally to bring to an end; in this context the campaign to end the slave trade and slavery.
Domestic slave
Political systems; Slavery
An enslaved person who works in a household rather than in the fields.
Davis Bend
Political systems; Slavery
Area of Mississippi where, in 1864, federal officials seized large plantations, one of which belonged to Jefferson Davis, and assigned portions of the land to freed slaves for their use. Like the ...
