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  2. Back-to-Africa movement - Wikipedia

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    In the 1830s, the movement became increasingly dominated by Southern slave owners, who did not want free blacks and saw sending them to Liberia as a solution. Slaves freed from slave ships were sent there instead of their countries of origin. The emigration of free blacks to Liberia particularly increased after Nat Turner's Rebellion of 1831 ...

  3. Babylon 5: In the Beginning - Wikipedia

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    The Minbari flagship Black Star closes in to finish off the Lexington but is destroyed by the mines—Earth's only real victory during the war. The Minbari faction that feels the war has caused enough senseless bloodshed—led by Delenn, who has learned that Dukhat believed an alliance with humans would be necessary to defeat the Shadows—uses ...

  4. History of forced labor in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The increasing scrutiny of totalitarianism in the lead-up to World War II brought increased attention to issues of slavery and involuntary servitude, abroad and at home. [30] The U.S. sought to counter foreign propaganda and increase its credibility on the race issue by combatting the Southern peonage system. [ 31 ]

  5. Slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Slavery was a contentious issue in the writing and approval of the Constitution of the United States. [56] The words "slave" and "slavery" did not appear in the Constitution as originally adopted, although several provisions clearly referred to slaves and slavery.

  6. Atlantic slave trade - Wikipedia

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    Slave exports to Honduras and Guatemala started in 1526. Historian Nigel Bolland writes of the slave trade in Central America: "The demand for labor in the early Spanish settlements of Hispaniola, Cuba, Panama, and Peru resulted in a large-scale Indian (Indigenous people) slave trade in Central America in the second quarter of the 16th century ...

  7. Slavery - Wikipedia

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    Slavery typically involves compulsory work, with the slave's location of work and residence dictated by the party that holds them in bondage. Enslavement is the placement of a person into slavery, and the person is called a slave or an enslaved person (see § Terminology). Photograph of a slave boy in the Sultanate of Zanzibar. 'An Arab master ...

  8. End of slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Chattel slavery was established throughout the Western Hemisphere ("New World") during the era of European colonization.During the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), the rebelling states, also known as the Thirteen Colonies, limited or banned the importation of new slaves in the Atlantic Slave Trade and states split into slave and free states, when some of the rebelling states began to ...

  9. The Suppression of the African Slave-trade to the United ...

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    The question of the suppression of the slave-trade is so intimately connected with the questions as to its rise, the system of American slavery, and the whole colonial policy of the eighteenth century, that it is difficult to isolate it, and at the same time to avoid superficiality on the one hand, and unscientific narrowness of view on the other.