Slave marriages in the United States were typically illegal before the American Civil War abolished slavery in the US. Enslaved African Americans were...

Slave breeding was the practice in slave states of the United States of slave owners systematically forcing slaves to have children to increase their wealth...

Slave Songs of the United States was a collection of African American music consisting of 136 songs. Published in 1867, it was the first, and most influential...

the Fugitive Slave Act required those living in the Northern United States to assist slave catchers. Slave catchers in the United States ceased to be...

In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was...

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The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state...

domestic servants, people in forced marriages, and child soldiers. The word slave was borrowed into Middle English through the Old French esclave which...

the suppression of the White Slave Traffic in May 1904. A subsequent scare occurred in the United States in the early twentieth century, peaking in 1910...

after, the United States also, both criminalized the international slave trade. The Royal Navy was increasingly effective in intercepting slave ships,...

The Fugitive Slave Clause in the United States Constitution, also known as either the Slave Clause or the Fugitives From Labor Clause, is Article IV,...

In the United States, fugitive slaves or runaway slaves were terms used in the 18th and 19th centuries to describe people who fled slavery. The term also...

The internal slave trade in the United States, also known as the domestic slave trade, the Second Middle Passage and the interregional slave trade, was...

nations, Suriname, and other countries. The Slave Compensation Act 1837 was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, signed into law on 23 December...

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The Black Sea slave trade trafficked people across the Black Sea from Europe and the Caucasus to slavery in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. The...

returning thither.” Because of the power relationships at work, slave women in the United States were at high risk for rape and sexual abuse. Their children...

The Balkan slave trade was the trade in slaves from the Balkans via Venetian slave traders across the Adriatic and Aegean Seas to Italy, Spain, and the...

said master or his assigns for the time of his natural Life." Edgar Toppin states that "Punch, in effect, became a slave under this ruling." A. Leon Higginbotham...

The treatment of slaves in the United States often included sexual abuse and rape, the denial of education, and punishments like whippings. Families were...

in the 1950s to 94% in 2021. The number of interracial marriages as a proportion of new marriages has increased from 3% in 1967 to 19% in 2019. The first...

their will to the United States to be wives. African-American slaves were often raped or forced to "breed" with other slaves. Many female slaves (known as...

of British America. Prior to the Thirteenth Amendment, the United States Constitution did not expressly use the words slave or slavery but included several...

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The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 (2 Stat. 426, enacted March 2, 1807) is a United States federal law that prohibited the importation...

million people are in forced marriages. The Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, an agency of the United States Department of State, says...

mitigated the need for large scale slave labor. The slave population included war prisoners and kidnapped victims or people who had been sold.: 145–147  In Chinese...

The Slave Trade Act 1807, officially An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom prohibiting the slave...

states. By 1808, the United States outlawed the importation of slaves but did not ban slavery —except as a punishment— until 1865. In Eastern Europe, groups...

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States is an 1853 novel by United States author and playwright William Wells...