experiences of slavery. Historian Deborah Gray White explains that "the uniqueness of the African-American female's situation is that she stands at the crossroads...

passed in most Northern states and a movement developed to abolish slavery. The role of slavery under the United States Constitution (1789) was the most...

After the United States was founded in 1776, the country split into slave states (states permitting slavery) and free states (states prohibiting slavery)....

The history of sexual slavery in the United States is the history of slavery for the purpose of sexual exploitation as it exists in the United States...

into sex slavery. The San Francisco Gate reported that San Francisco is one of the centers of sexual slavery in the United States. Most of the victims...

Slavery in the colonial history of the United States refers to the institution of slavery that existed in the European colonies in North America which...

and a divine institution similar or superior to the free labor in the Northern United States. Some slavery advocates asserted that many slaves were content...

in the United States, sometimes called slave cabins, were a form of residential vernacular architecture constructed during the era of slavery in the United...

Slavery existed in the Trucial States (1892–1971), which later formed the United Arab Emirates. The Trucial States consisted of the Sheikdoms Dubai, Abu...

Chattel slavery existed in Saudi Arabia until the 1960s. Hejaz (the western region of modern day Saudi Arabia), which encompasses approximately 12% of the total...

The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime...

chattel slavery existed in the region of Palestine until the 20th-century. The slave trade to Ottoman Palestine officially stopped in the 1870s, when the last...

bibliography of slavery in the United States is a guide to books documenting the history of slavery in the U.S., from its colonial origins in the 17th century...

Contemporary slavery Commercial sexual exploitation of children in the United States Human trafficking in the United States Penal labor in the United States "Human-Trafficking"...

Slavery existed in the Sultanate of Zanzibar until 1909. Slavery and slave trade existed in the Zanzibar Archipelago for at least a thousand years. When...

In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was...

Slavery has been called "deeply rooted" in the structure of the northwest African country of Mauritania and estimated to be "closely tied" to the ethnic...

of slavery, types of slavery, and debt slavery, which thoroughly explain the institution of slavery in Israel in antiquity. The Bible stipulates the treatment...

Slave breeding was the practice in slave states of the United States of slave owners systematically forcing slaves to have children to increase their...

The pre-American Civil War practice of kidnapping into slavery in the United States occurred in both free and slave states, and both fugitive slaves and...

Slavery was a practice throughout Al-Andalus and the Iberian Peninsula (present-day Spain and Portugal) between the 8th-century and the 15th century....

the plantation" is a euphemism used[by whom?] to refer to people with ancestry tracing back to the time of slavery in the United States in which the offspring...

Children of the plantation Colonial South and the Chesapeake Female slavery in the United States Scramble (slave auction) Seasoning Slavery in the colonial...

performed on female genitalia, including cutting, burning, and scraping. In the United States, FGM is most common in immigrant communities and in major metropolitan...

In the United States, fugitive slaves or runaway slaves were terms used in the 18th and 19th centuries to describe people who fled slavery. The term also...

Slavery in China has taken various forms throughout history. Slavery was nominally abolished in 1910, although the practice continued until at least 1949...

In the United States, abolitionism, the movement that sought to end slavery in the country, was active from the colonial era until the American Civil War...

Slavery among Native Americans in the United States includes slavery by and enslavement of Native Americans roughly within what is currently the United...

Chattel slavery was a major part of society, culture and economy in the Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258), which during its history included most of the Middle...

Slavery in Jordan is illegal, however, like many other countries, it suffers from issues relating to human trafficking. Historically, slavery in the territory...