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slave / slāv/ • n. chiefly hist. a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them. ∎ a person who… Slave Codes , The white male political and social power structure in the American colonies and slaveholding states needed an effective way to regulate and control… Slave Trade , Jews engaged in the slave trade – although they never played a prominent role in it – from the early Middle Ages to the early modern period. While it… Baptism , Before slavery became a fixture on the North American mainland, Europeans, both Catholics and Protestants, debated the relationship between African s… Slave Uprisings , SLAVE INSURRECTIONS. For enslaved people in America, protest against the injustice of chattel slavery took many forms. Most subtle were the individua… Rites Of Passage , Life changes and transitions are normally marked by ceremonies and rituals, or rites of passage. Dennis O'Neil referred to these transitions as "life…
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