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Books on: slavery act

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Journal Articles on: slavery act

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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, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...for the abolition of slavery throughout the British...effected with the Abolition Act of 1833. However, according...British, in abolishing slavery, were primarily motivated...the Kansas-Nebraska Act were ultimately ineffective...broader questions than slavery, including the constitutional...
     
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    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT bill that became law on May...controversy over the extension of slavery into the territories and was...provision that the question of slavery should be left to the decision...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, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...opposed the further extension of slavery, but the groups came to act together politically and otherwise...uncompromising temper made the slavery question the prime concern of...politics and hastened the demise of slavery in the United States (see also...
     
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    Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...succeeded William Wilberforce as leader of the antislavery group. His efforts resulted in the passage of an act (1833) abolishing slavery in the British colonies. He wrote The African Slave Trade (1839) and The Remedy (1840, 2d ed. 1967...
     
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    South Africa
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...equal to those of the whites, and by restricting the acquisition of new land by the Boers. In 1833 slavery was abolished in the British Empire, an act that angered South African slaveowners, but the freed slaves remained oppressed and continued to...
     

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