It seems the practice evolved amongst the slaves themselves. Peculium slavery, with slave-owning slaves, has been found in other parts of the world...

Taylor was the last one who owned slaves during his presidency, and Ulysses S. Grant was the last president to have owned a slave at some point in his life...

in 1778 became the first slave-owning state and one of the first jurisdictions anywhere to stop the importation of new slaves for sale; it made it a crime...

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annexation of 1783, the Circassian slave trade became the main source of white slaves to the Islamic Middle East, and these slaves were referred to as "Circassians"...

Importation of Slaves of 1807 (2 Stat. 426, enacted March 2, 1807) is a United States federal law that prohibits the importation of slaves into the United...

A slave catcher is a person employed to track down and return escaped slaves to their enslavers. The first slave catchers in the Americas were active in...

(1684–1777), French Huguenot slave narrator, he served as a galley slave. Jean Saint Malo (died 1784), leader of runaway slaves (maroon colony) in Spanish...

Various tribes of Europe are recorded by Roman sources as owning slaves. Strabo records slaves as an export commodity from Britannia, From Llyn Cerrig Bach...

some slaves in most free states up to the 1840 census, and the Fugitive Slave Clause of the U.S. Constitution, as implemented by the Fugitive Slave Act...

is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order...

Orleans was listed as owning 77 slaves. According to Rachel Kranz: Durnford was known as a stern master who worked his slaves hard and punished them...

usually either one dominant, or a committed dominant couple, owning one or more slaves. A slave and the owner, and others involved in the relationship, can...

A slave market is a place where slaves are bought and sold. These markets are a key phenomenon in the history of slavery. Since antiquity, cities along...

Satan's Slaves (Indonesian: Pengabdi Setan) is a 2017 Indonesian supernatural horror film written and directed by Joko Anwar. It is a loose remake-prequel...

of a Slave" about a Northerner who witnesses a funeral of an old slave which he interprets as a sign for the love between the master and his slaves. The...

convicts White slave propaganda American abolitionist propaganda using white-looking slaves Fanning, Bryan (November 1, 2017). "Slaves to a Myth". Irish...

categories of slave, such as: House-slaves, living in their master's home and working at home, on the land, or in a shop. Freelance slaves, who didn't live...

The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state...

to slave traders.: 76–78  The parents were told that their children were going to be given a better life as slaves in Arabia.: 76–78  The slaves were...

owner of a slave pen. Northup proclaims his freedom, only to be violently beaten and tortured. He is shipped to New Orleans with other slaves, who tell...

the work of fellow slaves and punish them for undesirable behavior. While on Epps' plantation, Northup became friends with a slave girl named Patsey,...

The Balkan slave trade was the trade in slaves from the Balkans via Venetian slave traders across the Adriatic and Aegean Seas to Italy, Spain, and the...

heightened Northern fears of a slave power conspiracy. It required that all escaped slaves, upon capture, be returned to the slave-owner and that officials...

slaves, although there are a few exceptions where Hebrew slaves are treated differently from non-Hebrew slaves. The laws include punishment for slave...

not only buy slaves from other people, but also conducted their own slave raids to supply slaves for their slave trade. To perform slave raids was a common...

have more often validated the accounts of slaves about their own experiences. Slave narratives by African slaves from North America were first published...

purchased slaves in Dalmatia from traders along the Narenta river, and also conducted slave raids themselves to capture slaves in Dalmatia. The slaves bought...

Ocean slave trade, sometimes known as the East African slave trade, involved the capture and transportation of predominately sub-Saharan African slaves along...

when the importation of slaves from Africa was prohibited by federal law. Historians estimate that upwards of one million slaves were forcibly relocated...