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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According to Dr. Samuel Cartwright of Louisiana, this was one of two diseases from which slaves suffered. Cartwright said that this disease caused slaves to run away. Dr. Jonathan Miller, an English ...

Diaspora

Political systems; Slavery

The spreading out of any group of people, forcibly or voluntarily, away from their homeland across a large area or indeed the world (it was originally used to describe the Jewish dispersal); also ...

Culture

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An identity based on religious or spiritual beliefs, language, and family values; cultures are inherent their applications can be neither inferior nor superior to each other and are continually ...

Crittenden Resolution

Political systems; Slavery

Also known as the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, it called for the Federal Government to take no action against the institution of slavery during the Civil War. Named for Senator John J. Crittenden ...

Demi-meamelouc

Political systems; Slavery

A person who is 1/32 black. The parents would be a full blooded white and a sextaroon.

Discriminate

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To treat unfairly favourably or unfavorably, especially on the basis of race or gender.

Methodists

Political systems; Slavery

Christian group, founded by John Wesley and his brother when they broke away from the Church of England and built the first Methodist chapel in Bristol in 1739