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... 44 KB (4,508 words) - 16:47, 26 April 2024 |
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... 57 KB (6,712 words) - 23:07, 22 April 2024 |
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... 10 KB (1,234 words) - 12:18, 27 April 2024 |
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas... 268 KB (30,849 words) - 22:47, 29 April 2024 |
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... 15 KB (1,790 words) - 21:38, 8 April 2024 |
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... 25 KB (2,698 words) - 23:10, 25 March 2024 |
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... 21 KB (2,506 words) - 17:33, 20 April 2024 |
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... 53 KB (6,033 words) - 08:27, 13 April 2024 |
Underground Railroad (redirect from Slave pathway) went north to free states and Canada, to the Caribbean, to United States western territories, and to Indian territories. Some fugitive slaves traveled south... 96 KB (10,023 words) - 13:57, 18 April 2024 |
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... 132 KB (13,589 words) - 21:14, 14 March 2024 |
Freedman (redirect from Freed slave) 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... 26 KB (3,162 words) - 15:11, 27 February 2024 |
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... 29 KB (3,134 words) - 03:05, 17 March 2024 |
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... 10 KB (927 words) - 11:02, 19 April 2024 |
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.... 23 KB (2,826 words) - 12:17, 13 February 2024 |
period, colonies and states had passed laws that discriminated against free Blacks. In the South, these were generally included in "slave codes"; the goal... 75 KB (10,272 words) - 01:23, 24 April 2024 |
and enforced discipline upon slaves in the antebellum U.S. southern states. The slave patrols' function was to police slaves, especially those who escaped... 14 KB (1,867 words) - 16:21, 19 April 2024 |
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... 50 KB (6,447 words) - 09:49, 9 March 2024 |
History of slavery (redirect from Slave-trade) 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... 278 KB (32,222 words) - 11:54, 27 April 2024 |