Slavery
Slavery is the practice of taking ownership of another human being. All questions about slavery in history, the effects of slavery, or slavery in the modern world can be asked here.
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In the US on January 1,1863, President Lincoln issued the famous Emancipation Proclamation. This document officially freed the...
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Some believe there were more slaves than free people. Some believe at least a third of ancient Greeks were slaves. Most were sold...
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they made life difficult by not hiring the African Americans in there buissnesses
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Just about everything one could imagine except for positions that are normally thought of as powerful and respectable. They...
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in Britain it ended in 1807
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Planking, the fad in which people take pictures of themselves lying face down and upload them to the internet, is not racist....
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The court ruled that slavery was protected by the constitution, so the Missouri Compromise (which banned slavery North of a...
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Be more specific. Are you talking about the freeman's guild?
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Justifications included: "They are just property, they have no rights." "They are sons of Cain and should be punished." "The...
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slave ship 1slave ship 2slave ship 3so on, and so on (:
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The French slave owners in Haiti had made a business decision that it was cheaper to treat slaves badly and then replace them...
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The slaves that ended up in North America and the Caribbean mainly come from the coast of West Africa, from Senegal to Nigeria.
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There is nothing exsisted such a words like this question, "what is a Nubian slave?" in the West!
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The Industrial Northern states could not use massed ranks of dependent labourers. The factory-bosses wanted skilled tradesmen,...
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Yes but not all. Throughout history people all over the world have opposed slavery. The underground train that moved black people...
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The African slave trade to the Americas and Europe was the result largely of wars within African tribes. Tribes and nations would...
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They had more job opportunities there.
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It wasn't particularly.It was against slavery in the North, mainly because the new industrial factory managers could not use it....
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The first bill introducing the anti-slavery 13th Amendment was introduced into the House of Representatives by James Mitchell...
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Brain-the biggest weapon, the mammoth power human has. Testimony of above statement is the present scenario. Just open the sea of...
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In the South following the Civil War, the white governments sought to avoid losing economic and political power to the newly...
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Black Africans had been engaging in the slave trade, both between various black African peoples and with the Arabs, for...
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Slaves were ranked at the bottom of Egyptian society. Slaves, like peasants, worked very hard. The more fortunate slaves worked...
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They needed slaves to do work. Once the cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney more cotton could be made at a faster rate, so...
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Nat Turner was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia, an uprising unprecedented until the American Civil War....
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Slavery was widely practiced in the Roman Empire, and medieval people inherited the practice from them.
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Dred Scott was a slave and he tried to get his freedom by going to court and talk it out but he failed
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about £50 pounds a year
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It was built in France in the late 1800s. An original cast iron model still resides in France, A terracotta model was on display...
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She was a big part of the underground railroad helping slaves find their way to safe houses.
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The legal end to slavery was in December of 1865 when the 13th Amendment was ratified.
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Approximately 20 million slaves were forced out of Africa, however only 9-12 million made it alive to be forced into the...
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Slaves were treated as property instead of people. They were cruelly and harshly punished if they misbehaved, even killed if...
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As long as man has been on earth. Men have always hated other men for various reasons.
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Because of there color. They were beaten and abused because they were seen like nasty people. If your color was dark then you...
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Abraham Lincoln. not just him, because he got help. harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglas, and just the regular slave. The regular...
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It hasn't. It is the only reasonable answer to this general question. Slavery still exists today, in every country of the world...
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It started around the 1430s and ended in the late 1800s. West Africa was a part of a major trading network long before the...
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The Dred Scott decision effectively ended the Missouri Compromise, hardening the political rivalry between North and South and...
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Slavery has existed throughout time and still does today.
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yes, because they owned them and they can do whatever they want to to them.
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over 2 miillion
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The slave trade enabled tribes to export and make money off of their enemies that they had captured. Economically, those Africans...
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Fredrick Douglass
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Type your answer here...Yes, they did! Especially handsome, white males. They used them as steam-room slaves mainly, where the...
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John Brown
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Benjamin Harrison, 23rd president. term was 1889 to 1893. this was well after the slave/abolition period (1820s/1830s-1861),...
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I'm not exactly sure that it was even an overnight bestseller, but the reason that it was so popular is that it exposed the true...
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You may be surprised to learn the first uprising was actually in 1800 by Gabriel Prosser. Born circa 1775, near Richmond, VA....
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The Missouri Compromise was an agreement between the North and the South and passed by Congress in 1820 that allowed Missouri to...
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The cotton industry depended totally on slave-labour, and as cotton became more and more profitable, Southern leaders fought hard...
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Well, my Aunt Bessie always told me that the slaves never existed. Noooooo My mommy told me they did exist and that they were...
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First off, they weren't slaves any more. Second, it depended on where they were. Many white Americans, whether Northerners or...
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Abraham Lincoln.
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Abolitionists.Many of these courageous abolitionists were clandestine conductors on The Underground Railroad.
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Harriet Tubman was the first to slave to escape north by following the drinking gourd
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Bassett, Blair, Blount, Butler, Carroll, Jenifer, Jefferson, Mason, Charles Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Rutledge,...
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Nobody "started" slavery, it has been a part of the human condition since cave man days. The first Africans were brought to an...
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Drew a line in the sand - everywhere North of that parallel (Missouri's Southern border) to be free soil.It kept the peace for...
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Because both sides were competing for the new territories that would be admitted to the USA.The South was the smaller half, and...
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slaves had better lives than many free factory workers.
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President Lincoln is famously quoted as writing: "If I could free all the slaves and preserve the Union I would do that. ...
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Because once caught, they were subject to everything from whipping and other torture to being put to death. Maybe because, in...
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Slavery has not been abolished. Some countries have mad it illegal. In the 1800s, those areas with slavery (or the semblance of...
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because the slaves cannot have any freedom and it is cruel and unkind! because people shouldn't be forced into labour at there...
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The escaping of slaves had occured since the 1600's, but the term "Underground Railroad" occured when America's first railroads...
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these are the maroons that lived in the eastern part of the island called Jamaica
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For a slave child the first thing is: chores cleaning the whole house cooking do not learn how to read or write get yelled or...
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he was not born on a slave ship
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People in the North thought even worse of slavery after reading Uncle Tom's Cabin. People in the South thought it was a book of...
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The slaves in the Americas (including the Carribean) came overwhelmingly from West Africa, from the areas that are now Mali,...
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They would have been dressed in rough cotton or linen material with little shape to them. Most would have been barefoot. Slaves...
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They were called "Over-seers" and were always male. More often then not they let the power go to their head and could be...
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The Chinese were never slaves in America-- yes, they were treated very poorly and payed minimally, but they were never brought...
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There is much debate about how slavery came about in the South. It could be down to the vast amounts of cotton that were being...
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They did it because they were now getting paid for it, and they needed the work to scratch out a living.
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Because the North was more industrial, and slavery did not fit the factory system. Industrial bosses wanted free skilled labour....
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Harriet Tubman indeed faced many obstacles in her quest to help free other slaves. Due to the Fugitive Slave Law, her capture was...
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It was a horrible life. Getting whipped, not seeing your family. It was a horrible life being literally beaten by slave masters...
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WPA stands for Works Progress Administration. The"slave narratives" are real life stories, interviews, and reminiscences reported...
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The fastest rate to be expected would be one day for each 40 miles plus two days used for handeling.
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Idk.You should ask the ones picking my cotton.
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It provided them with food, shelter, clothes, etc.
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AnswerIn Rhode Island, one of the founding colonies of the United States, slavery as defined by law, began in 1676. Roger...
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It was illegal to teach a slave or a "free person of color" to read and write. Anyone caught doing so was often ordered by the...
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