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 institution of slavery in North America existed from the earliest years of the colonial history of the United States until 1865 when the Thirteenth...

Slavery in the colonial history of the United States refers to the institution of slavery as it existed in the European colonies which eventually became...

institutions. The first recorded case of reparations for slavery in the United States was to former slave Belinda Royall in 1783, in the form of a pension...

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

Although the United States Constitution has never contained the words "slave" or "slavery" within its text, it dealt directly with American slavery in at least...

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...

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

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...

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"...

Following the creation of the United States in 1776 and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1789, the legal status of slavery was generally a...

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 as a positive good in the United States was the prevailing view of Southern politicians and intellectuals just before the American Civil War,...

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

Slavery in Britain existed before the Roman occupation and until the 11th century, when the Norman conquest of England resulted in the gradual merger of...

Slave breeding was the practice in slave states of the United States of white enslavers to systematically force the reproduction of enslaved people to...

In the 21st century, various legislatures have issued public apologies for slavery in the United States. On February 24, 2007, the Virginia General Assembly...

the United States outlawed the importation of slaves but did not ban slavery outright until 1865. In Eastern Europe, groups organized to abolish the enslavement...

and increased social status. The original practice precedes the timeline of slavery in the United States; inhabitants of the African and Middle Eastern...

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...

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...

for slavery. It is sometimes found in the thought of ancient philosophers, religious texts, and in American and British writings especially before the American...

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...

Americans Racism in the United States Religion in the United States Slavery in the United States Xenophobia in the United States Of the foreign-born population...

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...

and after 1840 in the United States. The Northern states of the United States abolished slavery, partly in response to the United States Declaration of...

for slavery is the application of the concept of reparations to victims of slavery and/or their descendants. There are concepts for reparations in legal...

The following is a list of court cases in the United States concerning slavery. Freedom suit Slavery in the colonial United States Slavery in the United...