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Research Topics on: slavery

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Books on: slavery

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Encyclopedia Articles on: slavery

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    Slavery
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

    SLAVERY institution based on a relationship of dominance and...and can exact from that person labor or other services. Slavery has been found among many groups of low material culture...States. History Although it is commonly held that slavery was rare among primitive pastoral peoples and that it appeared...
     
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    Abolitionists
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

    ...who opposed the further extension of slavery, but the groups came to act together...its uncompromising temper made the slavery question the prime concern of national politics and hastened the demise of slavery in the United States (see also slavery...
     
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    Emancipation Proclamation
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

    ...history, the executive order abolishing slavery in the Confederate States of America...These were freed in other ways (see slavery ). Nor did the proclamation have any immediate...reflect Lincolns desired solution for the slavery problem. He continued to favor gradual...
     
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    Stowe, Harriet Beecher
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

    ...the conscience of Americans concerning slavery and thereby influenced the course of American...Harriets brothers were violently opposed to slavery, and she had seen its effects in Kentucky...presented some of the favorable aspects of slavery, but it also crystallized the sentiments...
     
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    Dred Scott Case
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

    ...bitterly contested issue of the status of slavery in the federal territories. In 1834, Dred...Minnesota) in Wisconsin Territory, where slavery was prohibited by the Missouri Compromise...the whole question of federal power over slavery in the territories. They decided in the...
     

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