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  2. Slavery - Wikipedia

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    In the course of human history, slavery was a typical feature of civilization, [3] and was legal in most societies, but it is now outlawed in most countries of the world, except as a punishment for a crime. [4] [5] In chattel slavery, the slave is legally rendered the personal property (chattel) of the slave owner.

  3. History of slavery - Wikipedia

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    Sexual slavery was a central part of the Ottoman slave system throughout the history of the institution. [216] [217] A member of the Ottoman slave class, called a kul in Turkish, could achieve high status.

  4. Glossary of American slavery - Wikipedia

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    Broadside advertising bucks, wenches and a "picaninny" in Kentucky, 1855 Broadside advertising "acclimated" slaves separately from other people for sale, in New Orleans in 1858 . This is a glossary of American slavery, terminology specific to the cultural, economic, and political history of slavery in the United States

  5. White slavery - Wikipedia

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    In the mid-19th century, the term 'white slavery' was used to describe the Christian slaves that were sold into the Barbary slave trade in North Africa. History The phrase "white slavery" was used by Charles Sumner in 1847 to describe the slavery of Christians throughout the Barbary States and primarily in Algiers , the capital of Ottoman ...

  6. Slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    South Carolina army officer, planter, and railroad executive James Gadsden called slavery "a social blessing" and abolitionists "the greatest curse of the nation". [81] Gadsden was in favor of South Carolina's secession in 1850, and was a leader in efforts to split California into two states, one slave and one free.

  7. Forced labour - Wikipedia

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    Slavery was common in many ancient societies, including ancient Egypt, Babylon, Persia, ancient Greece, Rome, ancient China, the pre-modern Muslim world, as well as many societies in Africa and the Americas. Being sold into slavery was a common fate of populations that were conquered in wars.

  8. Why is it called Black Friday? Here's the real history behind ...

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    Some explanations of Black Friday claim that the holiday references a 19th-century term for the day after Thanksgiving, during which plantation owners could buy slaves at discount prices.

  9. Antebellum South - Wikipedia

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    The leading historian of the era was Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, who studied slavery not so much as a political issue between North and South, but as a social and economic system. He focused on the large plantations that dominated the South. Phillips addressed the unprofitability of slave labor and slavery's ill effects on the Southern economy.