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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Not all historians would agree that slavery was a "necessary" evil.In colonial America, slavery was a cheaper option was to...
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Shirley Temple (1928-present) was most famous in the thirties as an actress and singer. She made the Great Depression somewhat...
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it was told that father Junipero Serra was helped by your mother in the mission that caused 3,500 people dead .
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yes all of her siblings are dead
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Running away, killing live stock, so slow on plantation
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The Romans did not actually have classes of slaves. A slave was a slave; slavery was a class. However a slave, depending upon...
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It is a skillfully written book against slavery. It is interesting to read and was widely read and talked about and made into a...
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By trying to kill another slave or person.
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During the early 1850s, whites from the North began reading first hand experiences of slavery. Most citizens thought it was cruel...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin did what other anti-slavery works of literature did not, humanized the slave. The South however claimed that...
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At first about $200 to $300 per person. After cotton became a huge part of the economy it spiked to $800 to $1100. That is what...
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The underground railroad (not a railroad and mostly not underground) was the network that helped slaves escape to the North prior...
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i dont know, you tell me
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Slaves were mportant to southern states because the slaves did most of the labor and were thus a big part in powering their...
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Martin Luther King........ with his speech??
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He had group consisting of 16 white men, 3 free blacks, 1 freed slave, and 1 fugitive slave.
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Yes. All the slaves were black people from Africa.
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The slaves were treated poorly and were beaten to pulps. The people who traded the slaves were cruel and had no sense of...
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The children of slave woman were slaves who didn't have to be purchased.
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The white men from the North. They tortured and killed alot of African American slave.
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by the Caucasian people forcing them to come to the U.S. and get sold
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They decide to join the glorius Pat army, and in his glorius world domination campaign. In return, they get their freedom.
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No. The Dred Scott decision basically said all the states of the USA were slave states and a slave in a "free" state was still a...
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They were often mistreated, and were forced to work nights and days on end, as well as being whipped or treated with some other...
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No, it wasn't even a state.
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Sort of. Basically it prohibited slavery in the northern parts of the former Louisiana Territory except for the area of the...
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West Virginia split from Virginia at the start of the Civil War due to slavery, and Virginia became a part of the Confederacy...
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Yes not in the Emancipation Proclamation which freed most slaves but The thirteenth amendment finalized making slavery illegal in...
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the 13th amendment abolished slavery
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The Greeks and the Romans were selling and buying slaves.
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Harriet Tubman ran to the north to gain her freedom and then worked on the underground railroad for ten years.
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There were people that sold themselves into slavery here in the U.S. in Mass. back in the 1600's. Slavery is has always been...
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Mixed slaves were free if their owner died, but if their owner didn't died than they were not free.
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Basically, it boils down to selfishness. Slaves worked for no pay and minimum cost of overhead (food, clothing, shelter, medical...
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Some of the reasons were economic; some were the actions of the black slaves; some were the actions of white working class...
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the supreme court ssaid that all slaves were propperty of their owners, so he just established what was all ready said: that...
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Isn't it obvious? Africa.
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i think it might be so the public dident see them cause they might of not known or they could of been revulting for the people...
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Blacks did not like being slaves. Blacks were usually slaves because they looked a little different, because their skin was...
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They were called abolitionists.
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Well let me see. What part of working long, brutal hours with no pay or benefits, being beaten by an overseer if he felt like you...
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Colin Wilson, Steven Spielberg, Debbie Allen, David Franzoni, Anna Paquin, Harry Blackmun, Nigel Hawthorne, Matthew McConaughey,...
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Um I'm guessing the order was to not let them go.
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I think they had black slaves in England, but on a much smaller scale then America. It was also ended much quicker and without a...
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they mostly used the whip that''s where all the scars mostly came from
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American opposition to slavery was inherited from earlier European antagonism to the idea. Western European Church lawyers of the...
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Yes. The slavery in Nebraska is said to have been short and limited. There where no slaves in 1820, and then nothing happened on...
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Slaves encountered many punishments such as whipping, criticism, beating, and branding (Branding means when you heat up a metal...
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Escape to Canada and also hide in an abolitionists house for a couple of days, months, weeks, and even years.
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At the beginning of the war, Lincoln's main goal was to preserve the Union, and therefore he wanted the Southern states to call...
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no. that is what the head slaves were in charge of.
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I would say millions. There is no exact number since no one kept track, but defiantly a lot.
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The slave owners used their slaves during the Civil War the same way they had been using them before the war, as a source of...
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No no no no no! he married Mary Todd Lincoln
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Your question is unclear, but I will answer it to the best of my ability. If your talking about during the Civil War, it is...
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No slaves did not have right to equal treatment!
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The South was an agriculturally-based economy, which was more labor-intensive than the North's manufacturing-based economy.
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slave traders hired black people who had been abandoned by their villages to catch a black African that was by him/herself. they...
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harritet Tubman
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fight for the Union army or help other people get out of slavery.
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it was very crucial and no one could ever leave their housee
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She does not have her own holiday. But I think someone should organize it.
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Either by a general agreement not to keep slaves, or a general agreement from the slaves to accept their place.
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Harriet Tubman escaped on the Underground Railroad, and went to Canada.
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because they needed help killing people to make more land
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it depends upon your values. Slavery has always existed, the victims in the camps were slaves, slavery exists today. Most western...
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They didn't like it.It had been brought in as a necessary 'macho' gesture to appease the South for the introduction of California...
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It would depend on the duties they were given.
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Hawaii wasn't a state during the Civil War.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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because back then, the people in the south liked to be silly. In order to achieve this, they had to raise their average...
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The 14th amendment.
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The problems they faced were that they sucked lots of male genitals
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your question does not make sense so do you mean who was the slave who tried to sue "something" for his freedom?
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Pat Mutiny and sir a loaf
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It was outlawed, so none.
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The state supports slavery. It means it was legal to have slaves if you were a slave back in those times
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Harriet Tubman
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Contrary to popular belief, the American civil war was not solely based on differing opinions on slavery just like WW1 was not...
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yes in the south most slave owners whipped their slaves if they do something wrong or attempt to escape the south
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Laborers
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cause it was the worst of the rest duhh maybe if u had a high IQ level u would know that.
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The term you are looking for is Manumission- the owner of a slave might free the slaves that he owned.
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First of all, the numbers of blacks who didn't even survive the journey by ship from the African coast to America is staggering....
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george bush went in and smoked some weed with those black persons and said " im homosexual"
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It helped lead them to the safe houses in the underground railroad. Different patterns meant different things.
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Brazil in the nineteenth century was an Empire, and not a Republic , so basic questions about Citizen"s equal rights were second...
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