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 Slavery in America
It was difficult for the Quakers in Pennsylvania and the Puritans in New England to fit the institution of slavery into their views of the perfect New World societies, which they hoped to create.
Up to this point in the war, the Union had not fully committed its forces to the idea of the Civil War as a war to end slavery rather than a limited war to preserve the Union.
A number of northern states, had abolished slavery by 1800, and the federal Congress banned slavery from the vast region of unorganized territory north of the Ohio River with the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/history/hs_es_overview.htm   (11743 words)

  
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 Summary of Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
In the final chapters of Up From Slavery, Washington describes his career as a public speaker and civil rights activist.
In Up from Slavery, Washington traces his journey from slave to educator.
This account was then published as a book and in both forms it gained Washington significant White support.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/washington/summary.html   (414 words)

  
 Slavery - CAST :: Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking
Slavery is the labor or services that are performed or provided by another person and are obtained or maintained through an actor by cause and/or use of
Science and Technology at Scientific American.com: The Social Psychology of Modern Slavery -- Science and Technology from Scientific American: daily science
Although slavery was declared illegal in 1844 by the Oregon Provisional Government, The ban on slavery in the Oregon Country had nothing to do with
http://robot.yournetport.com/ynpt/robot-slavery.htm   (252 words)

  
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Gardens, Millbank, Westminster, LondonLook up Slavery in Wiktionary, the free
http://www.historyeuropeanwomen.com/27_slavery.html   (190 words)

  
 Washington, Booker T. 1901. Up from Slavery
Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Nonfiction > Booker T. Washington > Up from Slavery
This volume is dedicated to my Wife, Margaret James Washington, and to my Brother, John H. Washington, whose patience, fidelity and hard work have gone far to make the work at Tuskegee successful.
http://www2.bartleby.com/1004   (143 words)

  
 Up From Slavery: An Autobiography -by- Booker T. Washington
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography -by- Booker T. Washington
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http://www.public-domain-content.com/books/UpSlavery   (121 words)

  
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 HexaFind.com - Society : Issues : Labor : Slavery
Slavery Today (About.com) Overview of the many forms of modern day slavery.
Save A Slave Information and education exchange on the plight of modern slavery, child slavery and prostitition around the world, particularly in Sudan, Mauritania, Sudan, China, India and Thailand.
Unfinished Business: Tackling the Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism Papers from a conference at the Africa Centre, London, marking UN International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.
http://www.hexafind.com/directory/Society/Issues/Labor/Slavery   (53 words)

  
 Slavery
Slavery in Canada Slavery in Canada was first practised by the aboriginal nations, who routinely captured slaves from ne...
Slavery and State's Rights Slavery and States Rights was a speech by American Civil War causation and is generally under...
Wage slavery Wage slavery is a term expressing disapproval of a condition where a person feels compelled to labor in ord...
http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/slavery.html   (53 words)

  
 Open Directory - Society: Issues: Labor: Slavery
Focuses on the worst and most-ignored cases of human bondage: black chattel slavery in North Africa.
Slavery Today (About.com) - Overview of the many forms of modern day slavery.
Abolish Slavery - Soon - Campaign to help raise awareness about modern slavery and to highlight organizations working against it.
http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Labor/Slavery   (330 words)

  
 Slavery Guide: Bibliographical Essay
Relying on a wide array of quantitative data, this book argued that slavery was a highly profitable institution; that slave labor was highly efficient; that masters promoted stable nuclear families; and that slaves were healthy, well fed, rarely whipped, and seldom sold away from their spouses.
The law of slavery is analyzed in Paul Finkelman, ed., Slavery and the Law (1996); A Leon Higginbotham, Jr., In the Matter of Color (1978); Mark Tushnet, The American Law of Slavery (1981); and Alan Watson, Slave Law in the Americas (1989).
Women's lives under slavery are skillfully explored in Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women in the Old South (1988); Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow (1985); Melton A. McLaurin, Celia: A Slave (1991); and Deborah Gray White, Ar'n't I a Woman (1985).
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/slavery/bibliographical_essay.html   (753 words)

  
 CASBAH: Anti-Slavery International
Within the library there are over 3000 books on slavery and its abolition, including several titles which cover the role of the non-conformist churches in the anti-slavery movement, African colonialism in the late 19th century, and missionary and other expeditions in Africa, Latin America and Asia.
Slavery Today - a ten panel black and white exhibition (56.5cm x 76cm) documenting contemporary examples of bonded labour, forced labour and slavery around the world, and focussing on campaign work initiated by Anti-Slavery and other international human rights organisations.
The Changing Face of Slavery - a 20 panel exhibition, available in both A1 (59.4cm x 84.1cm) and A3 (29.7cm x 42cm) sizes, which traces the history of slavery from the time of the Transatlantic Slave Trade to slavery in contemporary society.
http://www.casbah.ac.uk/cats/print/231/ASIP00001.htm   (753 words)

  
 Open Directory - Society: Issues: Labor: Slavery
Unfinished Business: Tackling the Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism- Papers from a conference at the Africa Centre, London, marking UN International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.
Focuses on the worst and most-ignored cases of human bondage: black chattel slavery in North Africa.
Abolish Slavery - Soon - Campaign to help raise awareness about modern slavery and to highlight organizations working against it.
http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Labor/Slavery   (307 words)

  
 Slavery Resources and Links
Anti-slavery Issues in Canada, 1830 - 1870 A Selective Bibliography http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/22/index-e.html This is a 13 page bibliography on materials related to slavery in Canada during the time period 1830 - 1870.
Black Resistance to Slavery http://www.afro.com/history/slavery/main.html A list of the major revolts and insurrections, women's resistance to slavery, and who they were, where they came from, where they ended up.
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer's Project, 1936 - 1938 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html There are more than 2,3 00 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.
http://pphsp.uis.edu/slavery.htm   (2321 words)

  
 BBC NEWS Have Your Say How can we end slavery?
Slavery is alive and kicking in many forms, and it affects millions of individuals on a daily basis causing pain, indignity, and suffering.
When the British outlawed slavery at the beginning of the 19th Century, the ban had to be enforced by an armed naval blockade, similar force should be used now to finally rid the African continent and the rest of the world of this scourge.
Saeed's argument that slavery is a part of his religion and culture and that the slaves are well cared for is an echo of the arguments used by Southern plantation owners before the American Civil War.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/talking_point/4514279.stm   (7207 words)

  
 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, 226 U.N.T.S. 3, entered into force April 30, 1957.
Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, 226 U.N.T.S. 3, entered into force April 30, 1957.
Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, 226 U.N.T.S. entered into force April 30, 1957.
(a) "Slavery" means, as defined in the Slavery Convention of 1926, the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised, and "slave" means a person in such condition or status;
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/f3scas.htm   (1395 words)

  
 usexpansionandrevolutions.txt
Racism and future of slavery Wilmot Proviso (1846) - proposal that slavery be excluded from any territory acquired in war dies in Senate north versus south 6.
Slavery Revolutions American Revolution and Slavery Industrial Revolution and Slavery Slavery, Mexico and Texas Slavery and Southern Revolution 2.
Slavery Revolutions American Revolution and Slavery Industrial Revolution and Slavery Slavery, Mexico and Texas Slavery and Southern Revolution 8.
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~cruiksha/History1B03presentations/usexpansionandrevolutions.txt   (817 words)

  
 Slavery Guide
In the North, slavery was concentrated on Long Island and in southern Rhode Island and New Jersey, where most slaves were engaged in farming and stock raising for the West Indies or were household servants for the urban elite.
Slavery dates to prehistoric times and could be found in ancient Babylon, classical Greece and Rome, China, India, and Africa as well as in the New World.
Slavery provided the labor force for the Slavery played an indispensable role in the settlement and development of the New World.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/slavery/index.cfm   (784 words)

  
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Slavery and four years of war; a political history of slavery in the United States, together with a narrative of the campaigns and battles of the Civil War in which the author took part: 1861-1865, by Joseph Warren Keifer.
Collamer, of Vermont, on slavery in the territories.
Slavery in the ancient Near East : a comparative study of slavery in Babylonia, Assyria, Syria, and Palestine from middle of the third millennium to the end of the first millennium.
http://www.uvm.edu/~kbridges/slavery.html   (10683 words)

  
 Slavery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Slavery in the ancient Mediterranean cultures and the Islamic Caliphate was a mixture of debt-slavery, marriage, slavery as a punishment for crime, and the enslavement of prisoners of war.
Slavery under European rule began with importation of European indentured labourers, was followed by the enslavement of indigenous peoples in the Caribbean, and eventually was primarily replaced with Africans imported through a large slave trade.
Slavery in Japan was, for most of its history, indigenous, since the export and import of slaves was restricted by Japan being a group of islands.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery   (6316 words)

  
 Catholic Culture : Document Library : Let My People Go: the Catholic Church and Slavery
As used here, "slavery" is the condition of involuntary servitude in which a human being is regarded as no more than the property of another, as being without basic human rights; in other words, as a thing rather than a person.
Seventh, even where slavery was not altogether repudiated, slaves and free men had equal access to the sacraments, and many clerics were from slave backgrounds, including two popes (Pius I and Callistus).
Therein he described the enslavers as allies of the devil and declared attempts to justify such slavery "null and void." Accompanying the bull was another document, Pastorale Officium, which attached a latae sententiae excommunication remittable only by the pope himself for those who attempted to enslave the Indians or steal their goods.
http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=1201   (2399 words)

  
 Q & A Panel: Slavery
Slavery was so deeply entrenched and seemingly impregnable when the anti-slavery political crusade began among evangelical Christians in the eighteenth-century Britain that the most fervent crusaders among them hoped only to stop the continued enslavement and international trading of human beings.
Among the Islamic nations of North Africa and the Middle East, the abolition of slavery came especially late, with Saudi Arabia, Mauritania, and the Sudan continuing to hold slaves on past the middle of the twentieth century [20].
Slavery is treated as a normal part of life >in the Bible, and St. Paul directs slaves to obey their >masters.
http://answering-islam.org/Q-A-panel/slavery.html   (4290 words)

  
 Slavery - ArtPolitic Encyclopedia of Politics : Information Portal
Slavery in the Americas during the 17th century was an institution that made little distinction as to the race of the slave or the free man. But by the 18th century, the overwhelming number of black slaves was such that white and Native American slavery was less common.
Slavery in the ancient Mediterranean cultures was a mixture of debt-slavery and the enslavement of prisoners of war.
Slavery under European rule began with importation of white European slaves (or indentured servants[?]), was followed by the enslavement of local aborigines in the Caribbean, and eventually was primarily replaced with Africans imported through a large slave trade as the native populations declined through disease.
http://www.artpolitic.org/infopedia/sl/Slavery.html   (2681 words)

  
 Slavery and Anti-Slavery (1852), by Rev. William Goodell (Constitutional Law and History)
This was the commencement of negro slavery in the colonies."—Ib.
From this consideration, and from the limited extent of slavery in the northern and eastern colonies, it may be inferred that the slavery of that region was of a comparatively mild type.
Thus, in Virginia, where slavery, in fact, commenced in 1620, the first slave law cited by Stroud or by Spooner, is that of 1670, and most of the acts defining slavery are, perhaps, since 1700.
http://medicolegal.tripod.com/goodellsaas.htm   (14757 words)

  
 Anti-Slavery and Development and Peace: Debt bondage
Slavery was, in a very real sense, the very first international human rights issue – responsible for the first human rights laws and the earliest non governmental organizations.
Following the abolition of slavery, debt bondage was used as a method of colonial labour recruitment for the supply of labour to plantations in Africa, the Caribbean and South-East Asia.
These contemporary forms of slavery are in fact as old as traditional “chattel” slavery and attempts to eradicate them have so far been much less successful than last century’s campaigns against the traditional slave-trade.
http://www.devp.org/slavery/bondage.html   (7612 words)

  
 Anti-slavery < Activists < Political < People < : news feed
Camel racing is a local passion in the Emirates, and in June 2004, Anti- Slavery International released photos of preschool-age child jockeys in Dubai.
London -based human rights group Anti-Slavery International says 43 000 people live as slaves in Niger, a vast country on the southern fringe of the Sahara.
The project centers on the legacy of the Bleeding Kansas movement throughout eastern Kansas and the fight between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces.
http://schema-root.org/people/political/activists/anti-slavery   (7612 words)

  
 Abolition: The African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress Exhibition)
For example, the charter of Georgia prohibited slavery, and many of its settlers fought a losing battle against allowing it in the colony, Before independence, Quakers, most black Christians, and other religious groups argued that slavery was incompatible with Christ's teaching.
Although the economic center of slavery was in the South, northerners also held slaves, as did African Americans and Native Americans.
On January 1, 1794, delegates from the abolition societies of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland met in Philadelphia, a stronghold of the anti-slavery Quaker religion.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam005.html   (1558 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: SLAVERY
Slavery was thus a constant source of tension in the lives of slaveholders.
Slavery in Texas was not a matter of content, well-cared for servants as idealized in some views of the Old South.
Slavery certainly promoted development of the agricultural economy; it provided the labor for a 600 percent increase in cotton production during the 1850s.
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/SS/yps1.html   (2531 words)

  
 Bad Subjects: Sex Slavery and Queer Resistance in Eastern Europe
Slavery emerges from powerful psychological forces in the unconscious, and consequently is part of the political unconscious that constantly re-emerges into public expression.
Slavery lies in wait; it emerges in fits and starts; it re-invents itself in continual neo-slaveries; it is part of the human condition.
Slavery, defined as permanent legal, social or economic inability to achieve autonomous control of one's body or independent decision-making, exists as a constantly re-invented mode of dominance.
http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2004/69/kitlinski_lockard.html   (2531 words)

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