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A long-term relationship with an enslaved person was often called a marriage, but it was a contubernium or quasi-marital relationship. [8] Unlike white couples, enslaved people did not have the protection of the law, the sanctity of the church, or the greater community's support to foment successful marriages.
While slang is usually inappropriate for formal settings, this assortment includes well-known expressions from that time, with some still in use today, e.g., blind date, cutie-pie, freebie, and take the ball and run. [2] These items were gathered from published sources documenting 1920s slang, including books, PDFs, and websites.
Glossary of American slavery. This is a glossary of American slavery, terminology specific to the cultural, economic, and political history of slavery in the United States. Broad wife: Also broad husband; spouse of an enslaved person who lived on another plantation or in another settlement. [2]
In the 19th century, courting was the term for socializing between unmarried men and women. When the socializing between a man and woman included an explicit intent to eventually marry, it was called courtship. Men and women met through families and friends, in church, and at school.
The primacy of cotton meant that "slavery became very much a central institution and defining feature of what became Mississippi." [12] Circa 1792, settlers were predominantly Anglo-American and two out of every three slaves in the Natchez District were African-born. [13] The Mississippi Territory of the United States was organized in 1798. [6]
Partus sequitur ventrem (lit. 'that which is born follows the womb'; also partus) was a legal doctrine passed in colonial Virginia in 1662 and other English crown colonies in the Americas which defined the legal status of children born there; the doctrine mandated that children of enslaved mothers would inherit the legal status of their mothers ...
t. e. The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from its founding in 1776 until 1865, predominantly in the South. Slavery was established throughout European colonization in the Americas.
e. 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.