Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of the American educator Booker T. Washington (1856–1915). The book describes his experience of working to rise...
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Abolitionism (redirect from Abolition of slavery)
movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery was France in 1315, but it was...
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chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from its founding...
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Booker T. Washington (category Wikipedia articles needing page number citations from November 2020)
and among more liberal whites. Washington wrote an autobiography, Up from Slavery, in 1901, which became a major text. In that year, he dined with Theodore...
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Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour. Slavery typically involves compulsory work, with the slave's location...
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presentation of the history of slavery to the general public. The American film industry has had a complex relationship with slavery, and until recent decades...
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Slavery in Britain existed before the Roman occupation (which occurred from approximately AD 43 to AD 410) and endured until the 11th century, when the...
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Sexual slavery and sexual exploitation is an attachment of any ownership right over one or more people with the intent of coercing or otherwise forcing...
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history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. Likewise, its victims have come from many different...
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economic roles of slavery, types of slavery, and debt slavery, which thoroughly explain the institution of slavery in Israel in antiquity. The Bible stipulates...
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Contemporary slavery, also sometimes known as modern slavery or neo-slavery, refers to institutional slavery that continues to occur in present-day society...
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The history of slavery in the Muslim world began with institutions inherited from pre-Islamic Arabia. Throughout Muslim history slaves served in various...
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Slavery has historically been widespread in Africa. Systems of servitude and slavery were once commonplace in parts of Africa, as they were in much of...
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contributed greatly to the abolition of slavery with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. Up until then, sugar planters from rich British islands such as the Colony...
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Slavery existed in the Sultanate of Zanzibar until 1909. Slavery and slave trade existed in the Zanzibar Archipelago for at least a thousand years. When...
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continent of Africa is one of the regions most rife with contemporary slavery. Slavery in Africa has a long history, within Africa since before historical...
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had been transported from Africa during the Atlantic slave trade or were their descendants. The institution of chattel slavery was established in North...
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Legal Chattel slavery existed in Saudi Arabia until the 1960s. Hejaz (the western region of modern day Saudi Arabia), which encompasses approximately...
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Slavery had already existed in Ireland for centuries by the time the Vikings began to establish their coastal settlements, but it was under the Norse-Gael...
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Slavery existed in the United States from its inception in 1776 to its partial abolition with the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States...
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The abolition of slavery occurred at different times in different countries. It frequently occurred sequentially in more than one stage – for example...
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Patsey (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
unknown. In 1850, she had a daughter named Mary White, who was born into slavery and in the Epps plantation. Mary was later sold down south and she had...
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eighteen centuries. Saint Augustine described slavery as being against God's intention and resulting from sin. In the eighteenth century the abolition...
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Slavery in Egypt existed up until the early 20th century. It differed from the previous slavery in ancient Egypt, being managed in accordance with Islamic...
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The early history of slavery in the Indian subcontinent is contested because it depends on the translations of terms such as dasa and dasyu. Greek writer...
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Uncle Tom (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
informing against the route being used by two women who have just escaped from slavery. However, the character also came to be criticized for allegedly being...
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Frederick Douglass (category Use mdy dates from July 2024)
for African-American civil rights in the 19th century. After escaping from slavery in Maryland in 1838, Douglass became a national leader of the abolitionist...
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Slavery in the ancient world, from the earliest known recorded evidence in Sumer to the pre-medieval Antiquity Mediterranean cultures, comprised a mixture...
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Solomon Northup (category Articles with dead external links from November 2023)
job and went to Washington, D.C. (where slavery was legal); there he was drugged and kidnapped into slavery. He was shipped to New Orleans, purchased...
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slavery. While tobacco, sugar, and rice took root in the Caribbean and North American colonies, the enslaved population of the New World shifted from...
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