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  2. 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 ...

  3. History of slavery - Wikipedia

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    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. [1]

  4. Mann Act - Wikipedia

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    Newspaper clip "Wanted 60,000 girls to take the place of 60,000 white slaves who will die this year" The Mann Act, previously called the White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910, is a United States federal law, passed June 25, 1910 (ch. 395, 36 Stat. 825; codified as amended at 18 U.S.C. §§ 2421–2424).

  5. Post Readers: Why stop at white-washing slavery? - AOL

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    Florida educators blew it at white-washing standards on teaching slavery. Why should they stop there when history offers o much more?

  6. Slavery in the colonial history of the United States

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    An authoritarian political culture evolved to prevent slave rebellion and justify white slaveholding. Northern slaves typically dwelled in towns, rather than on plantations as in the South, and worked as artisans and artisans' assistants, sailors and longshoremen, and domestic servants. [94]

  7. Black History/White Lies: The 10 biggest myths about slavery

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    To be fair, white people weren’t the only culprits. Native Americans enslaved African Americans at rates that often mirrored white Southerners.In fact, when the 13th Amendment abolished slavery ...

  8. O'Rourke: White Americans don't know full story of slavery - AOL

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    "White Americans do not know this story," O'Rourke said, noting that until a tour of the church's grounds, he hadn't known anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman had lived in the area.

  9. Slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In The Universal Law of Slavery, Fitzhugh argues that slavery provides everything necessary for life and that the slave is unable to survive in a free world because he is lazy, and cannot compete with the intelligent European white race. He states that "The negro slaves of the South are the happiest, and in some sense, the freest people in the ...