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...

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

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

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

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...

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,...

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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...

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Among Slaves". Echoes-Sentinel. Warren Township, New Jersey. July 1, 1976. p. 56. "Last Slave Ship to Land Her Human Cargo in the United States". The Sun...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

The history of slavery in the Muslim world began with institutions inherited from pre-Islamic Arabia. Throughout Muslim history slaves served in various...

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

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...

The Red Sea slave trade, sometimes known as the Islamic slave trade, Arab slave trade, or Oriental slave trade, was a slave trade across the Red Sea trafficking...

The Venetian slave trade refers to the slave trade conducted by the Republic of Venice, primarily from the Early Middle Ages to the Late Middle Ages....

The slave codes were laws relating to slavery and enslaved people, specifically regarding the Atlantic slave trade and chattel slavery in the Americas...

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 Genoese slave trade refers to the slave trade conducted by the Republic of Genoa, which was a major business during primarily the Middle Ages. In...

was transported to the British colony of Jamaica as a child, where he was sold as a slave to John Wedderburn of Ballendean. While in Scotland, Knight was...

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...