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  2. The 272 - Wikipedia

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    In 1838, prominent Catholic leaders of the Jesuits Order sold 272 enslaved people to fund Georgetown University. The book chronicles the history behind this event by following an enslaved family for almost 200 years. This book also shows how the Catholic Church in the United States depended on slave labor to run its institutions and grow its ...

  3. Middle Passage - Wikipedia

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    The enslaved Africans came mostly from the regions of Senegambia, Upper Guinea, Windward Coast, Gold Coast, Bight of Benin, Bight of Biafra, and Angola. [5] With the growing abolitionist movement in Europe and the Americas, the transatlantic slave trade gradually declined until being fully abolished in the second-half of the 19th century. [6] [7]

  4. 1838 Jesuit slave sale - Wikipedia

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    One of the Maryland Jesuits' institutions, Georgetown College (later known as Georgetown University), also rented slaves. While the school did own a small number of slaves over its early decades, [13] its main relationship with slavery was the leasing of slaves to work on campus, [14] a practice that continued past the 1838 slave sale. [13]

  5. History of slavery - Wikipedia

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    The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. Likewise, its victims have come from many different ethnicities and religious groups. The social, economic, and legal positions of slaves have differed vastly in different systems of slavery in different times and places. [1]

  6. 'Slavery, plagues and forced assimilation': Why a ... - AOL

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    Many in Indian Country say it’s time for Indigenous Peoples Day to become an official holiday replacing Columbus Day. Here's what it means to them.

  7. Atlantic slave trade - Wikipedia

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    The sailing of slaves in the domestic slave trade is known as "sold down the river," indicating slaves being sold from Louisville, Kentucky which was a slave trading city and supplier of slaves. Louisville, Kentucky, Virginia, and other states in the Upper South supplied slaves to the Deep South carried on boats going down the Mississippi River ...

  8. African-American history - Wikipedia

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    In the years to come, the institution of slavery would be so heavily involved in the South's economy that it would divide America. The most serious slave rebellion was the 1739 Stono Uprising in South Carolina. The colony had about 56,000 enslaved Blacks, outnumbering whites two-to-one.

  9. Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom - Wikipedia

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    This case was generally taken at the time to have decided that the condition of slavery did not exist under English law in England and Wales. [66] 1773 Portugal: A new decree by the Marquis of Pombal, signed by the king Dom José, emancipates fourth-generation slaves [58] and every child born to an enslaved mother after the decree was published ...