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 one...

demand for slave labor, and the Southern states continued as slave societies. The United States, divided into slave and free states, became ever more polarized...

Over time, the states began to divide into slave states and free states. Maryland and Virginia passed laws to reward people who captured and returned enslaved...

required that all escaped slaves, upon capture, be returned to the enslaver and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate. The Act contributed...

that allowed slavery in the new territories and forced officials in free states to give a hearing to slave-owners without a jury. The New England Articles...

The internal slave trade in the United States, also known as the domestic slave trade, the Second Middle Passage and the interregional slave trade, was...

African American slave owners within the history of the United States existed in some cities and others as plantation owners in the country. During this...

The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas...

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...

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

Quincy Adams and abolitionism Lists of United States public officials who owned slaves Slavery in the District of Columbia Treatment of slaves in the United...

Slave markets and slave jails in the United States were places used for the slave trade in the United States from the founding in 1776 until the total...

in the Americas. Most slave codes were concerned with the rights and duties of free people in regards to enslaved people. Slave codes left a great deal...

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

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

The Free Soil Party was a short-lived coalition political party in the United States active from 1848 to 1854, when it merged into the Republican Party...

went north to free states and Canada, to the Caribbean, to United States western territories, and to Indian territories. Some fugitive slaves traveled south...

 1782), free woman of color and slave trader in Saint Domingue. Judah P. Benjamin (1811–1884), Secretary of State for the Confederate States of America...

self-purchase. A fugitive slave is a person who escaped enslavement by fleeing. Rome differed from Greek city-states in allowing freed slaves to become plebeian...

The Slave Power, or Slavocracy, referred to the perceived political power held by American slaveowners in the federal government of the United States during...

the United States occurred in both free and slave states, and both fugitive slaves and free negroes were transported to slave markets and sold, often...

Slave Songs of the United States was a collection of African American music consisting of 136 songs. Published in 1867, it was the first, and most influential...

Confederate-controlled areas (and thus almost all slaves) were free. When they escaped to Union lines or federal forces (including now-former slaves) advanced south...

Slave rebellions and slave resistance were means of opposing the system of chattel slavery in the United States from 1776 to 1865. According to Herbert...

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

period, colonies and states had passed laws that discriminated against free Blacks. In the South, these were generally included in "slave codes"; the goal...

and enforced discipline upon slaves in the antebellum U.S. southern states. The slave patrols' function was to police slaves, especially those who escaped...

Delaware bordered slave states of the Confederacy to their south. Of the 34 U.S. states in 1861, nineteen were free states and fifteen were slave including the...

British colonies in North America and in the United States before the abolition of slavery in 1865, free Negro or free Black described the legal status...

Black people (free and slaves) from the United States moving to Canada after the American Revolution, known as the Black Loyalists; and again after the...