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  2. 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]

  3. Slavery - Wikipedia

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    In the course of human history, slavery was a typical feature of civilization, [3] and was legal in most societies, but it is now outlawed in most countries of the world, except as a punishment for a crime. [4] [5] In chattel slavery, the slave is legally rendered the personal property (chattel) of the slave owner.

  4. Slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The words "slave" and "slavery" did not appear in the Constitution as originally adopted, although several provisions clearly referred to slaves and slavery. Until the adoption of the 13th Amendment in 1865, the Constitution did not prohibit slavery.

  5. African-American history - Wikipedia

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    The history of slavery in the United States has always been a major research topic among white scholars, but until the 1950s, they generally focused on the political and constitutional themes of slavery which were debated over by white politicians; they did not study the lives of the enslaved black people.

  6. Glossary of American slavery - Wikipedia

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    Broadside advertising bucks, wenches and a "picaninny" in Kentucky, 1855 Broadside advertising "acclimated" slaves separately from other people for sale, in New Orleans in 1858 . This is a glossary of American slavery, terminology specific to the cultural, economic, and political history of slavery in the United States

  7. Slavery Was a Global Phenomenon - AOL

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    "The Arabs were history's premier slave traders. Muslims took so many blonde slaves out of the [Slavic] region, they gave the world the name 'Slav,' [for] 'slave,' to the global slave population."

  8. History of slavery in the United States by state - Wikipedia

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    The federal district, which is legally part of no state and under the sole jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress, permitted slavery until the American Civil War. For the history of the abolition of the slave trade in the district and the federal government's one and only compensated emancipation program, see slavery in the District of Columbia.

  9. Slavery is not gone, it has just moved out to sea - AOL

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    The third episode of the podcast series "The Outlaw Ocean," from CBC Podcasts and the L.A. Times, tells the harrowing stories of sea slavery. Listen to it here: Rain or shine, shifts were between ...