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  2. List of members of the United States Congress who owned slaves

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    This is a list of members of the United States Congress who enslaved Black and Indigenous Peoples. Slavery was legal in the United States from its beginning as a nation , having been practiced in North America from early colonial days.

  3. Glossary of American slavery - Wikipedia

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    Stampede: Per the Slave Stampedes on the Missouri Borderlands project of Dickinson College and the U.S. National Park Service, the term stampede came into use in the 1840s to describe "serial escapes by individuals or pairs, sometimes to describe either spontaneous or planned small group escapes of 3 or more people, and yet most often to define ...

  4. Superspade - Wikipedia

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    Superspade is a term that has been used since the early 1900s to describe African Americans that were exceptionally gifted in different areas. The label was primarily given to athletes (e.g. Jesse Owens, Muhammad Ali) and entertainers (e.g. Jimi Hendrix, Sidney Poitier). The term was used to capture "the essence of what was expected of black folks.

  5. African-American slave owners - Wikipedia

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    Free blacks were perceived "as a continual symbolic threat to slaveholders, challenging the idea that 'black' and 'slave' were synonymous". [12] Free blacks were sometimes seen as potential allies of fugitive slaves and "slaveholders bore witness to their fear and loathing of free blacks in no uncertain terms". [13]

  6. Category:Anti-African and anti-black slurs - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Anti-African and anti-black slurs" ... Hottentot (racial term) House slave; J. Jim Crow (character) K. Kaffir (racial term) M. Macaca (term) Monkey ...

  7. 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.

  8. 20 iconic slang words from Black Twitter that shaped pop culture

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    In honor of Black Twitter's contribution, Stacker compiled a list of 20 slang words it brought to popularity, using the AAVE Glossary, Urban Dictionary, Know Your Meme, and other internet ...

  9. Talk:Call a spade a spade - Wikipedia

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    Does "spade" in this context refer to the type of shovel, or the old derogatory term for a person of African heritage? 143.182.124.2 17:44, 15 June 2007 (UTC) [] The expression to call a spade a spade is thousands of years old and etymologically has nothing whatsoever to do with any racial sentiment.