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    Peter (fl. 1863) (also known as Gordon, or "Whipped Peter", or "Poor Peter") was a self-emancipated, formerly enslaved man who was the subject of photographs...
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  • Peter Mills (October 26, 1861 – September 22, 1972) was the last known surviving American man born into legal slavery: he died in 1972 aged 110. Mills...
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    Slavery (redirect from Enslaved person)
    holds them in bondage. Enslavement is the placement of a person into slavery, and the person is called a slave or an enslaved person (see § Terminology)...
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    West Africa and enslaved in the United States for 40 years until President John Quincy Adams freed him. Abraham, an enslaved black man who carried messages...
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    households held enslaved people in bondage, the second-highest proportion of any city in the colonies, behind only Charleston, South Carolina. Enslaved people...
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    his enslaved population, but was constantly disappointed when they failed to meet his exacting standards. A significant proportion of the enslaved population...
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    documentation for most enslaved individuals. List of slaves Peter Fossett – Former slave (1815–1901), said to be the last survivor of enslavement by Thomas Jefferson...
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    slave reproduction. Enslaved women were forced to give birth to eight or more enslaved children. Some slaveholders promised enslaved women their freedom...
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  • Africans were enslaved in wars with other West African states and kidnapped by either African or European slavers. The most common means of enslaving an African...
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    North Carolina, enslaved people were entitled to be clothed and fed, and the murder of an enslaved person was punishable. However, enslaved people could...
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    extradition of Archy Lee, a formerly enslaved man living in Sacramento, back to Mississippi. Though Burnett himself had enslaved two people, he opposed calls...
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    born enslaved in Georgia in 1848, wrote an autobiographical account of his life. On a plantation in Georgia, there was an enslaved Hoodoo man named Uncle...
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    an enslaved male. Hawkins is widely considered to be the first English merchant to profit from the Triangle Trade; trading English goods for enslaved people...
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    Washington's side, was one of the most publicized enslaved people in Colonial America. Sarah Johnson lived as an enslaved and a free person on Mount Vernon, and...
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    750 enslaved people from her husband, Isaac Franklin. Stair Agnew (1757–1821), land owner, judge and political figure in New Brunswick, he enslaved people...
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    about angering her and other enslaved people. While the enslavers had power over their lives, Caroline and other valued enslaved people were sometimes able...
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    Peter Mensah (born 27 August 1959) is a Ghanaian-British actor, based in Canada. He is best known for his role as Oenomaus on the Starz television series...
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    Throughout the South enslaved men sang "Massa Had a Yaller Gal", but the South Carolinian version "suggests the competition between enslaved and slaveholding...
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    Accounts of torture come from both slavers and the enslaved, although accounts from the formerly enslaved were historically mistrusted or discounted. In one...
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  • that Sally Shields had married a white man, Andrew Robinson, in 1838 in Perry County, Alabama. She was still enslaved, so the marriage was ostensibly illegal...
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    Harriet Tubman (category People enslaved in Maryland)
    Ross to enslaved parents, Harriet ("Rit") Green and Ben Ross. Rit was enslaved by Mary Pattison Brodess (and later her son Edward). Ben was enslaved by Anthony...
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  • Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future is a 1990 speculative evolution and science fiction book written by Scottish geologist and palaeontologist...
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    – Snakekiller (1998) Love Like Blood – The Love Like Blood E.P. (1998) Enslaved – Blodhemn (1998) Raise Hell – Holy Target (1998) Thyrfing – Valdr Galga...
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  • members, including director Robert Kurtzman (man killed by piano), had small cameos in the film. Writer Peter Atkins, also known for his work on Hellraiser...
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    third of the population was enslaved. The earliest Akan state of Bonoman which had third of its population being enslaved in the 17th century. In Sierra...
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    Nat Turner (category People enslaved in Virginia)
    1800 – November 11, 1831) was an enslaved African-American carpenter and preacher who led a four-day rebellion of both enslaved and free Black people in Southampton...
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    term is gratuitous manumission, "the conferment of freedom on the enslaved by enslavers before the end of the slave system". The motivations for manumission...
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    Sojourner Truth (category People enslaved in New York (state))
    their relationship; he did not want the people he enslaved to have children with people he was not enslaving, because he would not own the children. One day...
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  • Charles Deslondes (category People enslaved in Louisiana)
    forty enslaved people in the battle, from which many enslaved people fled into the swamps. Shortly afterward, the militia killed fourteen more enslaved people...
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    Henry Box Brown (category People enslaved in Virginia)
    Henry Box Brown (c. 1815 – June 15, 1897) was an enslaved man from Virginia who escaped to freedom at the age of 33 by arranging to have himself mailed...
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