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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Under the Fugitive Slave Law, any person arrested as a runaway slave had almost no legal rights. Many runaways fled to Canada...
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His great great great great grandfather was Kunta Kinte, he 70 years 5 months and 30 days old when he died, and he died of a...
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Africans were stronger, more resistant to the diseases of the whites, and they were easier to obtain because they were simply...
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with the civil war
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Approximately 6 To 8 Weeks To Get Across The Americas To Africa.
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It was cheap labor and and they just had to feed them enough to keep them alive
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It is a condition that a person finds themselves in when the totality of their wages only allows them to pay the interest...
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Slavery has been practiced for thousands of years. Remember that the Jews were slaves in Egypt. American Indians captured their...
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The "Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands" was a US government agency under the War Department following the US...
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Slavery started when the colonies were first set-up, but the south just refused to stop using them, which brought about the civil...
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Portuguese (and Brazilians), the English, the French, the Spaniards, the Dutch, and the North Americans
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Africans, "Blacks", were chosen because they are a humble and strong people. "People of Color" kissed by the sun and humble in...
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Slaves were needed for sugar plantations, gold & silver mines and hard force of labor.
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Slavery was made illegal with the ratification of the 2009 amendment to the timisha town hall on Dec 12, 2008 However, if the...
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Again, this depends upon the tribe. Some adopted the slaves and they became part of a family, to replace, perhaps, a child who...
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Economics. Its cheaper to have slaves to do really nasty drudge work for you, and you turn a higher profit at your business....
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AnswerThe Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865-1869,...
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Everywhere, back in ancient times clans were geographically isolated so everyone in a clan looked like each other, through...
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Slaves worked from sun up, to sun down, and more often than not, on little next to no food whatsoever.
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Because the term refers to a black who accepted a subservient role to whites.
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Slavery ruins many people's lives.
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It is believed to be in the early 1600's. -Round Rupert or that we just want that to happen 1619 a Dutch warship was said to...
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Everywhere that it did in 1864.
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The question is badly phrased, I can only assume its meaning is 'How long ago did slave ships sail upon the middle passage?'. The...
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The British West Indies Labor Program. Following the precedent of the Mexican Labor Program, the U.S. government established a...
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the underground rail road
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You were most likely whiped severly and beaten and let out into the feilds again and forced to work with possibly being crippled.
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it depends... if it's tight packed on the ship, they could how 200... if they were loose packed, they could only hold 170. it...
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Slavery developed when Christopher Columbus went over to the Americas and took those slaves over to Europe
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Your owner would give you a document stateing that you are a freed slave.
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It created a great sadness because all the African Americans thought that they would have to become slaves again since Lincoln...
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The slaves did Slave punishment plantation effectSlaves were very valuable and cost a lot of money. They were called property not...
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We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I A full commitment's what's I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this...
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Linen torn up from sheets. Just because it was the slave days, it did not mean the did not have the necessities or knowledge of...
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Nelson Mandela
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Abraham Lincoln's personal thoughts and views regarding slavery during the time between the Lincoln-Douglas debates and the end...
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emancaption proclamtion The 13th amendment to the constitution abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude except as a punishment...
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Study shows that there was an impact on both the West Indies and on West Africa. The impact on West Africa for the most part was...
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Blacks acquired different freedoms throughout time. They did not acquire them all at once. The battle against racism and...
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Yes. The sold African Slaves off their land, in exchange for weapons and liqour,
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He wasn't given a middle name at birth. His name was recorded only as Nat. He later was given the surname of his owner Samuel...
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freedom's journal
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Basicly slavery, the black Africans and many other black people were used as slaves.
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They fought to make themselves free?
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He made Indians move out of the states, walking down the "trail of tears."He also reformed the American Government, he decreased...
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Alexander Ross is a famous Canadian abolitionist who helped slaves escape from U.S. slave quarters and helped them get to Canada....
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Harpers Ferry is in West Virginia.
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to provide labor for the cotton industry
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Slavery is still practiced in Sudan. Villages, homes are invaded, fathers killed and children taken from the home of Christians...
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In Britain the most vocal abolishionist was probably William Wilberforce.
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to many about 111,111,119,000,000
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The slaves were purchased at auctions, from another slave owner, or in some cases, they were inherited. The buyers checked to...
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To help increase profit, slave ship owners would pack as many slaves as possible into a ship as possible, creating a very crowded...
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cristopher colombas brought them from Africa
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starvation,sometimes they lose their children,they get whipped if they dont work fast enough.Don't make me say MORE, PLZ DON'T!...
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Mardaret Murray Washington
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Dred Scott v. Sanford, 60 US 393 (1857) Yes. Although Dred Scott lost his case before the US Supreme Court, Taylor Blow, son of...
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Slavery was officially abolished in the United States in 1865 (by the enactment of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution),...
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Published in 1852,
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God chose him to rescue the Pharoah's slaves. The Pharaoh said no so God made the Diseases, e.t.c. eternl darkness, frogs. 1....
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The colonies used slaves as a cheep source of labor to grow tobacco and sugarcane.
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Roman slaves were given many types of jobs ranging from menial duties to personal care duties to confidential duties. Their...
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manumit, from the latin manus=hand, plus emittere=send forth.
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Tobacco plantations.
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Portuguese traders accounted for 95% of the slave trade in the fifteenth century.
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slave resistance on plantations was unsuccessful because the plantation owners were united and if a slave tried to escape they...
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They were free but not free from racism. The whites would always feel superior and make the blacks feel not equal. They also had...
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my mom said that slaves would sleep in a bran with the animals, but im not absolutly sure.
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Yes, slaves did try to escape in groups normally led by someone who contributed to the Underground Railroad. Groups usually held...
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That he had been employed for some years on free soil, where his freedom would have been granted automatically.But he did not...
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they kneeled down and shot him in the head, his head exploded in the air and he died tragicly. they left him there and let the...
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They would follow the north star which would lead them north to canada.
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they worked harer than native americans
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The name of the first slave will never be known. Most people don't know that before the explorers visited Africa and took slaves,...
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Abraham Lincoln & the Emancipation Proclamation.
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There is alot of issues that was caused by slavery in 1862, but i am only going to tell u two. The first one is it made families...
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I think that slaves mostly did the work,yes they did break tools but this is not how they resisted slavery:)
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They did in Europe. Orientals did Asia. Blacks did in Africa. Arabs did in the Middle East. And yes, even the Native Americans of...
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The Compromise of 1850 make America terrible. It opened our eyes to slavery. If America didn't have slaves we wouldn't even be...
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To be the fastest to attack
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