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  2. Peter (enslaved man) - Wikipedia

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    Subject of photos of his scarred back, widely circulated during the American Civil War Peter ( fl. 1863 ) (also known as Gordon , or " Whipped Peter ", or " Poor Peter ") was an escaped American slave who was the subject of photographs documenting the extensive scarring of his back from whippings received in slavery.

  3. Renty Taylor - Wikipedia

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    Renty Taylor (c. 1775 - after c. 1866), also known as Renty Thompson or Papa Renty, was an African man of the 18th and 19th centuries.Born in the Congo Basin, he was captured and enslaved and brought to the United States and sold as a slave.

  4. Slave quarters in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Plantation slavery had regional variations dependent on which cash crop was grown, most commonly cotton, hemp, indigo, rice, sugar, or tobacco. [3] Sugar work was exceptionally dangerous—the sugar district of Louisiana was the only region of the United States that saw consistent population declines, despite constant imports of new slaves.

  5. Plantation complexes in the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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    In village-type slave quarters on plantations with overseers, his house was usually at the head of the slave village rather than near the main house, at least partially due to his social position. It was also part of an effort to keep the enslaved people compliant and prevent the beginnings of a slave rebellion, a very real fear in the minds of ...

  6. History of slavery - Wikipedia

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    The neighboring Muslim states conducted slave raids from the 1600s into the 1800s in coastal areas of the Gulf of Thailand and the Philippine islands. [274] [275] Slaves in Toraja society in Indonesia were family property. People would become slaves when they incurred a debt. Slaves could also be taken during wars, and slave trading was common.

  7. Slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Three-Fifths Clause of the Constitution gave slave states disproportionate political power, [3] while the Fugitive Slave Clause (Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3) provided that, if a slave escaped to another state, the other state could not prevent the return of the slave to the person claiming to be his or her owner. All Northern states had ...

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  9. List of slave traders of the United States - Wikipedia

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    "Slave Trader, Sold to Tennessee" depicting a coffle from Virginia in 1850 (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum) Poindexter & Little, like many interstate slave-trading firms, had a buy-side in the upper south and a sell-side in the lower south [13] (Southern Confederacy, January 12, 1862, page 1, via Digital Library of Georgia) Slave ...