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  2. History of slavery in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    In 1628, a slave ship carried 100 people from Angola to be sold into slavery in Virginia, and consequently the number of Africans in the colony rose greatly. [8] [13] [15] The Atlantic slave trade had been in existence among Europeans before Africans landed in Virginia and according to custom, slavery was legal.

  3. Virginia Slave Codes of 1705 - Wikipedia

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    The enactment of the Slave Codes is considered to be the consolidation of slavery in Virginia, and served as the foundation of Virginia's slave legislation. [1] All servants from non-Christian lands became slaves. [2] There were forty one parts of this code each defining a different part and law surrounding the slavery in Virginia.

  4. John Humphrey Noyes - Wikipedia

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    John Humphrey Noyes (September 3, 1811 – April 13, 1886) was an American preacher, radical religious philosopher, and utopian socialist. He founded the Putney , Oneida and Wallingford Communities, and is credited with coining the term "complex marriage".

  5. Utopian socialism - Wikipedia

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    Marx and Engels associated utopian socialism with communitarian socialism which similarly sees the establishment of small intentional communities as both a strategy for achieving and the final form of a socialist society. [7] Marx and Engels used the term scientific socialism to describe the type of socialism they saw themselves developing ...

  6. History of the socialist movement in the United States

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    Utopian socialism was the first American socialist movement. Utopians attempted to develop model socialist societies to demonstrate the virtues of their brand of beliefs. Most utopian socialist ideas originated in Europe, but the United States was most often the site for the experiments themselves.

  7. List of American utopian communities - Wikipedia

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    A utopian socialist community Rugby: Tennessee Thomas Hughes: 1880 1887 A community based on Christian socialism. Am Olam: Across the US Mania Bakl and Moses Herder 1881 Most disbanded by the 1890s Jewish social movement that sought to create agricultural communities in America. [11] Shalam Colony: New Mexico John B. Newbrough Andrew Howland ...

  8. American Slavery, American Freedom - Wikipedia

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    American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia is a 1975 history text [1] by American historian Edmund Morgan. [2] The work was first published in September 1975 through W W Norton & Co Inc and is considered to be one of Morgan's seminal works.

  9. Slavery in the District of Columbia - Wikipedia

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    That restrictions on slavery in the District were probably coming was a major factor in the retrocession of the Virginia part of the District back to Virginia in 1847. Thus the large slave-trading businesses in Alexandria , such as Franklin & Armfield , could continue their operations in Virginia, where slavery was more secure .