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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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Middle passage
Political systems; Slavery
The second stage in the transatlantic slave trade, on which ships carried enslaved Africans from Africa to either the Caribbean islands or the Americas (see also Triangular trade)
Manumission
Political systems; Slavery
Legal process or act by which enslaved Africans could buy their freedom or be freed by their owner. Most southern states provided for manumission of slaves by will upon the death of their master. ...
Mason-Dixon line
Political systems; Slavery
Named after two surveyors, it was originally the boundary between the English North American colonies of Maryland and Pennsylvania; it came to mark the division between the Southern slave states and ...
Manillas
Political systems; Slavery
Brass bracelet-shaped objects mainly made in England and used as money on the West Coast of Africa to trade for enslaved people during the 17th Century. Very few of these inexpensive bangles were ...
Maroons
Political systems; Slavery
Enslaved Africans who escaped into the Jamaican wilderness to form their own separate communities, from the Spanish word cimarron meaning wild or untamed.
Marabou
Political systems; Slavery
A person who is 5/8s black. His or her parents would have to be a full blooded black and a quadroon.
Merchant
Political systems; Slavery
Trader of goods, buying for one price and selling them on for an increased price.
