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Books on: slavery act

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Slavery, Propaganda, and the American Revolution

Book by Patricia Bradley; University Press of Mississippi, 1998

Subjects:

Antislavery Movements--United States--History--18th Century, Press And Propaganda--United States--History--18th Century, Slavery--United States--History--18th Century, United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--African Americans, United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Propaganda

Collections: History, Entire Library

A study of how blacks were excluded from the Revolutionary patriots' goals for American liberatio
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Slavery, Freedom and Gender: The Dynamics of Caribbean Society

Book by Brian L. Moore, B. W. Higman, Carl Campbell, Patrick Bryan; University of the West Indies Press, 2001

Subjects:

Freedmen--West Indies, Slavery--West Indies--History, Slaves--Emancipation--West Indies, Women Slaves--West Indies--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

Slavery, Freedom and Gender Slavery, Freedom and Gender The Dynamics of Caribbean Society...2003 07 06 05 04 03 5 4 3 2 1 CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION DATA Slavery, freedom and gender: the dynamics of Caribbean society / edited...
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Slavery: History and Historians

Book by Peter J. Parish; Westview Press, 1989

Subjects:

African Americans--History--To 1863, African Americans--History--To 1863--Historiography, Slavery--United States--Historiography, Slavery--United States--History, Southern States--History--1775-1865, Southern States--History--1775-1865--Historiography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the more acute paradoxes of slavery for both masters and slaves...and expected their slaves to act like dependent children also...drastically reduced and the Negro Act of 1740 severely curtailed...firmly based slave system. Slaverys geographical spread was quite...
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Slavery and the Churches in Early America, 1619-1819

Book by Lester B. Scherer; William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1975

Subjects:

Slavery And The Church--United States, Slavery--United States--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Europe, where true slavery gradually disappeared...manumission was a pious act. On the other hand...the west coast. An act of Parliament in...rise of African slavery in the English colonies...early responses to slavery in that region were...this interest is an act of 1667 stating...
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Slavery, Law, and Politics: The Dred Scott Case in Historical Perspective

Book by Don E. Fehrenbacher; Oxford University Press, 1981

Subjects:

Scott, Dred--1809-1858, Slavery--Law And Legislation--United States, Slavery--United States--Legal Status Of Slaves In Free States

Collections: History, Entire Library

...consistently gave slavery more support than...case in point is the act of Congress usually...passing an organic act that contained no prohibition against slavery. Such a measure was...Missouri enabling act unencumbered with restrictions on slavery. The object, plainly...

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Journal Articles on: slavery act

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St. George Tucker and the Legacy of Slavery

Journal article by Michael Kent Curtis; William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 47, 2006

Subjects:

Democracy--Laws, regulations and rules, Freedom of speech--Laws, regulations and rules, Public schools--Laws, regulations and rules, Sedition Act of 1918, Slavery--Laws, regulations and rules, State rights--Laws, regulations and rules, Tucker, Henry St. George (American politician)--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Wealth--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Entire Library

...legislature on the Sedition Act illustrate. But the acid of slavery soon ate away at free...passed a comprehensive act aimed at suppressing anti-slavery agitation.... The law...Virginia government would act against slavery, Tuckers constitutional...
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Abolition without Deliverance: The Law of Connecticut Slavery 1784-1848

Journal article by David Menschel; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 111, 2001

Subjects:

Connecticut Gradual Abolition Act of 1784, Connecticut--History, Slavery--History

Collections: Entire Library

...Connecticuts 1784 Gradual Abolition Act did not remove slavery from the state in a prompt...ought not be "continued in slavery by an act of government," or "sold for...Id. (24.) Id. (25.) An Act To Prevent Slavery (1848), in 1849 THE REVISED...
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An Ounce of Prevention: Improving the Preventative Measures of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act

Journal article by Takiyah Rayshawn Mcclain; Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 40, 2007

Subjects:

Human smuggling--Prevention, Sex tourism--Laws, regulations and rules, Slavery--Laws, regulations and rules, Victims of Trafficking and Violence Prevention Act of 2000

Collections: Entire Library

...a commercial sex act." (15) Approximately...currently live in slavery, and between 800...First Modern Anti-Slavery Law: The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, 34 CASE...Ryf, The First Anti-Slavery Law: The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, 34 CASE...
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Frederick Douglass, the Constitution, and Slavery: A Classroom Debate

Journal article by Vanessa Rodriguez; Social Education, Vol. 72, 2008

Subjects:

Abolitionists--Speeches, lectures and essays, Constitutions--Study and teaching, Constitutions--United States, Douglass, Frederick--Speeches, lectures and essays, Education, Elementary--Methods, Elementary education--Methods, Slavery--Study and teaching, Social science education--Methods, United States Constitution

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Convention of 1789 chose not to pass the strongest anti-slavery act, which would be immediately abolishing the slave...now is one of reform, not of revolution. I would act for the abolition of slavery through the Government--not over its ruins. If...
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Desperately Ducking Slavery: Dred Scott and Contemporary Constitutional Theory

Journal article by Mark A. Graber; Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 14, 1997

Subjects:

Citizenship--Laws, regulations, etc., Constitutional law--Interpretation and construction, Dred Scott v. Sanford--60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1856), Jurisprudence--History, Slavery--Laws, regulations, etc., United States Constitution

Collections: Entire Library

...federal regulation of slavery in the territories...the Kansas-Nebraska Act,(73) northern Democrats...the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Political debates over the status of slavery in the territories...the Kansas-Nebraska Act challenged this axiom...committed to banning slavery upon admission to...

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Magazine Articles on: slavery act

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The Nefarious Trade: Britain's First Anti-Slavery Act Was Ineffective, Says Marika Sherwood-British Slave Traders Found Ways around It to Carry on Their Profitable Activities, While British Commerce Flourished through the Import of Slave-Grown Cotton

Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 57, March 2007

Subjects:

Abolition of slavery, Slave trade--History, Slavery--Emancipation

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Nefarious Trade: Britains First Anti-Slavery Act Was Ineffective, Says Marika Sherwood-British...WITHIN DAYS OF THE 1807 ANTI-SLAVERY ACT coming into force, British slave...years for Parliament to pass the Act, there had been plenty of time to...
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1807 Act Commemoration; What Did We Achieve? Did Africans Gain Anything from the Commemoration of the 1807 Slavery Abolition Act? One Year after the Event, Which Was Played Big by the British Government, Kwaku Takes a Critical Look and Asks: Was Anything Achieved?

Magazine article by Kwaku; New African, May 2008

Subjects:

African history, 1498-1870--Social aspects, Slave trade--Evaluation, Slavery--Cases, Slavery--Interpretation and construction, Social policy--Evaluation

Collections: Entire Library

...Anything from the Commemoration of the 1807 Slavery Abolition Act? One Year after the Event, Which Was Played...commemorations by saying that the 1807 Act was the first step towards the abolition of slavery. This is a fallacy. There was no plan in...
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U.S. Apology for Slavery-Apparently Not Front Page News

Magazine article by Ananda S. Osel; The Humanist, Vol. 68, November 2008

Subjects:

African Americans--Civil rights, African Americans--Crimes against, African Americans--History, Civil Liberties Act of 1988, Jim Crow laws--Ethical aspects, Racism--Analysis, Slavery--Ethical aspects, Slavery--History, Slavery--Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Congress. House--Cultural policy

Collections: Entire Library

...Following the abolition of slavery in 1863 American blacks endured...passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act of...ancestors of slaves, even though slavery was perfectly legal, should...guide us. The Civil Liberties Act of 1988, signed into law by...
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No Freedom from the 1807 Act: An Error Crept into Our May Article, "1807 Act Commemoration-What Did We Achieve?" Written by Kwaku. Here, He Sets the Records Straight, and Offers Us Even More: William Wilberforce Was the Parliamentary Champion of the 1807 Act, Yet Wrote That "It Would Be Wrong to Emancipate the Slaves. to Grant Freedom to Them Immediately Would Be to Ensure Not Only Their Masters' Ruin, but Their Own."

Magazine article; New African, July 2008

Subjects:

Abolition of slavery--Laws, regulations and rules, Abolition of slavery--Social aspects, Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, Slavery--Emancipation, Slavery--Laws, regulations and rules, Slavery--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...muddied the waters with terms like "Slavery Abolition Act". Last year, there was great...the passing of the Abolition Of Slavery Act of 1833 (or the 1833 Act). Although...re-cap: the 1833 Abolition of Slavery Act forced Africans over the age of...
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Slavery and the Black Family

Magazine article by James Q. Wilson; Public Interest, Spring 2002

Subjects:

African Americans--Family, Single-parent family--Demographic aspects, Slavery--Social aspects, The Marriage Problem (Book)--Excerpts

Collections: Entire Library

...concentrating on large plantations, underestimated the effect of slavery on families. On the big plantations, there was at least a chance that a male and female slave could find one another and act as if they were married. ("As if" because, of course, no...

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Newspaper Articles on: slavery act

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Restored Statue Marks Family's Long Campaign; ABOLITION OF SLAVERY

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 26, 2007

Subjects:

Slavery

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of the Slave Trade Act. The statue was created...who worked against slavery and for peace. It...bicentenary of the anti-slavery act. The ceremony - held...provision in the act that all the so-called...years, which was just slavery under another name...
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Slavery Museum Ensures Liverpool Will Not Forget; Crowds Throng to City's New Display Detailing Shameful Trade

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), August 24, 2007

Subjects:

Museums, Remembrance Day--2007 AD, Slavery

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...enter the only international slavery gallery in the world. After the official opening an act of reflection remembering...contemporary resonance of slavery, concluding with a specially-written...to Remember and A Call to Act. Mr Tafari said: "A lot of...
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Slavery Is Not Yet a Thing of the Past

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), August 24, 2007

Subjects:

Slavery

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Following the 2004 Morecambe Bay tragedy, the Gangmaster Licensing Act was introduced and earlier this month Mauritanias Parliament took a historic step forward by criminalising slavery As Liverpool this week celebrates the opening of the new International...
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Gardens to Reveal 'Slavery and Its By-Products Are Woven into the Fabric of Welsh Life at Every Level'

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), September 25, 2007

Subjects:

Slavery

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the Transatlantic Slave Trade Act. And the visits will explain...built from wealth linked to slavery, whether from building ships...about their ancestors links with slavery and how it has shaped life in...Wales, said, "The subject of slavery and slave trading in Wales history...
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Remembering Slavery

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), February 27, 2007

Subjects:

Slavery

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...to highlighting contemporary slavery, as Clare Clayton writes. This...years since the Parliamentary act which abolished the slave trade...colonies. It was not the end of slavery, but the move stopped the trade...society including British anti-slavery campaigners, members of the...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: slavery act

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Slavery

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the abolition of slavery throughout the British...with the Abolition Act of 1833. However...Kansas-Nebraska Act were ultimately...broader questions than slavery, including the constitutional...the International Slavery Convention of 1926...over the Brussels Act of 1890; its main...
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Kansas-Nebraska Act

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT bill that became law on...controversy over the extension of slavery into the territories and was...free. The Kansas-Nebraska Act flatly contradicted the provisions...Missouri Compromise (under which slavery would have been barred from...
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Abolitionists

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...opposed the further extension of slavery, but the groups came to act together politically and otherwise...North and South. The culminating act of extreme abolitionism occurred...Filler, The Crusade against Slavery, 1830 1860 (1960); D. L. Dumond...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...fostered the drastic Embargo Act of 1807 in an attempt to gain...temporarily resolved the issue of slavery in new states, but under the...passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), which repealed the...to take a middle stand on the slavery issue, and extremists came to...
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Labor Law

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...working conditions. An act of 1833 provided for inspection...forced labor systems as slavery and indentured servitude...day to 8 hrs until 1908. Slavery ended with the Civil War...National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (the Wagner Act) established the right...

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