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Slave Coast
Slave Coast name given by European traders to the coast bordering the Bight of Benin on the Gulf of Guinea, W Africa. It was the principal source of slaves from W Africa from the 16th cent. to the mid-19th cent.
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Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 11/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...households with multiple slaves increasingly owned entire slave families. Unlike...frequently characterized slave systems elsewhere. Nevertheless, slaves resisted. But...with black male slaves, and in which every one of seventy slave seamen captured...
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Masters, Slaves, and Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740-1790
Magazine article from: South Carolina Historical Magazine; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...premise that as a "Slave Society" the domination of slaves "was always the...their disposal, slave masters had to contend with slaves who were not the...Unfortunately, the slaves' cultural participation in colonial slave society was fraught...
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Slaves, Poor Whites, and the Underground Economy of the Rural Carolinas
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...to the so-called slave, internal, or informal...economy, studying slaves' independent activities...to organize their slave labor forces according...the gang system, slaves labored under close...rational nature of slave-poor white exchange...subversive character. Slaves and poor ...
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Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782. (Reviews).
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 12/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...supported more than 6000 slaves, it developed one of the more unusual slave societies in the history...marriages, often named slave children for themselves...usually bequeathed slaves to relatives, avoided breaking up slave families, sometimes...
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 "Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)")
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SLAVES TO CITY'S FORTUNES.(News)
Newspaper article from: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England); 8/18/2004; 700+ words
; ...is descended from slaves. He is the great-grandson of a slave from Barbados. Today...trafficking. City slave traders often owned...and America where slaves worked. Many of...and chains to keep slaves shackled surrounded...Businesses making rope for slave ships and machinery...
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Slaves, poor whites, and the underground economy of the rural Carolinas.
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...to the so-called slave, internal, or informal...economy, studying slaves' independent activities...to organize their slave labor forces according...the gang system, slaves labored under close...rational nature of slave-poor white exchange...subversive character. Slaves and poor ...
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Slaves Helped Build White House
News Wire article from: AP Online; 7/31/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Clyburn, D-S.C. Slaves were the largest locally...be carved out of two slave-owning states, Virginia...more than 60 years. Slaves worked as domestic servants...city became a thriving slave-trading center, and...voiced shock at witnessing slaves being led past the Capitol...
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Slaves to History
Newspaper article from: Pittsburgh City Paper; 2/20/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...In close detail, Slave Ship chronicles not...horrific lot of the slaves, but also their...capitalism. It's the slave ship as factory...and into the slaves upon whose unpaid...the importation of slaves continued unchecked...become the hemispheric slave-based empire of...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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SLAVES IN MY FAMILY; SLAVES How a poor farmer from Devon built a slave empire that brought huge wealth but is still blighting his descendants.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 6/13/1998; 700+ words
; ...descendants of his family's slaves. 'The progeny of slaves and slave owners are forever linked...a monopoly on the Atlantic slave trade granted by Charles II...was its principal director. Slaves they transported were often...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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SLAVES' GRAVES THOUGHT TO BE ON FARM.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 9/4/2001; 700+ words
; ...indication of how the slaves lived. According...of sale, a young slave named Bate was sold...assumed to be the slave plot. John A. Maybee...the two or three slaves kept by his 18th...a safe harbor for slaves escaping to Canada...about New York's slave history, but it...
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Slave Trade
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...there were as many slaves as there were Roman citizens. The slave trade was also a...destination for the slave trade was the Muslim world, with slaves coming from Africa...major source of slaves, and the international slave trade was dominated...
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Fugitive Slave Acts (1793, 1850)
Book article from: Major Acts of Congress
...Others resented the ability of slave owners to reclaim slaves who might have escaped many...right to reclaim fugitive slaves. THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT OF 1850 The Fugitive...owners to retake fugitive slaves. Slave owners could either seize...
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Prohibition of the Slave Trade (1807)
Book article from: Major Acts of Congress
...importation of foreign slaves and Congress had restricted slave importation to the...hinder domestic sales of slaves between slave states, nor was enforcement...officers, and owners of slave ships. Estimates of the number of slaves imported illegally...
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Slave Insurrections
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...down unrest among slaves and to picture insurrections...mythology of the "happy slave" reflected a continuing...impressive. The first slave revolt in territory...Carolina. Several slaves rebelled and fled...having recaptured the slaves. Insurrection in...Carolina. In 1712 a slave ...
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Slave Mode of Production
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...formation in which the slave mode of production...citizens rather than slaves constituted the productive...agrees that non-slave producers accounted...was slavery because slaves provided the surplus...of war-supplied slaves trailed off. The...consequence was increased slave-breeding ...
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