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  2. Slave states and free states - Wikipedia

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    In the South, Kentucky was created as a slave state from Virginia (1792), and Tennessee was created as a slave state from North Carolina (1796). By 1804, before the creation of new states from the federal western territories, the number of slave and free states was 8 each.

  3. Arkansas River - Wikipedia

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    The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. It generally flows to the east and southeast as it traverses the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. The river's source basin lies in Colorado, specifically the Arkansas River Valley. The headwaters derive from the snowpack in the Sawatch and Mosquito ...

  4. Early history of the Arkansas Valley in Colorado - Wikipedia

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    The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 gave the U.S. ownership of a large, but undefined, portion of the Arkansas River Valley. The Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819 established the border between Spanish Mexico and the United States in Colorado. Spanish territory was south of the Arkansas river and U.S. territory was north of the River.

  5. History of slavery in North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    North Carolina Historical Review 63.1 (1986): 1–39. online; Minchinton, Walter E. "The Seaborne Slave Trade of North Carolina." North Carolina Historical Review 71.1 (1994): 1–61. online; Modlin Jr, E. Arnold. "Tales told on the tour: Mythic representations of slavery by docents at North Carolina plantation museums."

  6. Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom - Wikipedia

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    North Carolina South Carolina: Native American slave trade in the American Southeast reduces with the outbreak of the Yamasee War. 1723 Russia: Peter the Great converts all house slaves into house serfs, effectively making slavery illegal in Russia. 1723–1730: Qing Dynasty

  7. Thirty years after end of apartheid, equality eludes ... - AOL

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    Nelson Mandela's African National Congress promised South Africans "A Better Life For All" when it swept to power in the country's first democratic election in 1994, marking the end of white ...

  8. History of slavery in Arkansas - Wikipedia

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    Slaveholders were initially clustered in the eastern and southern sections of Arkansas Territory closer to the Mississippi River Delta. [2] Topography was more varied in the north and west, so there were fewer slaves in those sections. [3] Enslaved people would live in rural or urban antebellum Arkansas. [4]

  9. It's 30 years since apartheid ended. South Africa's ... - AOL

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    The ANC has been in power ever since the first democratic, all-race election of April 27, 1994, the vote that officially ended apartheid. It's 30 years since apartheid ended. South Africa's ...