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Slavery in the United States

The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States from its founding in 1776 until 1865, predominantly in the South. Slavery was found throughout European colonization in the Americas. From 1526, during the early colonial period, it was practiced in…

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Slavery in the American Revolution and early republic

Slavery in the 19th century

Civil War and emancipation

Reconstruction to the present

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Geography and demography

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Histories of slavery in the Western Hemisphere

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Slavery in the United States

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slaves slave states slavery south free black united american new war many enslaved southern white people emancipation labor state trade

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the Confiscation Actsinstance ofdue to Union measures0.80text
the Emancipation Proclamationinstance ofdue to Union measures0.80text
the war effectively ended slavery in most placesinstance ofdue to Union measures0.80text
Beriah Greeninstance ofunder the impulse of religious evangelicals0.80text
the sense emerged that owning slaves was a sininstance ofunder the impulse of religious evangelicals0.80text
the owner had to immediately free himself from this grave sin by immediate emancipation.Prohibiting the international tradeUnder the Constitutioninstance ofunder the impulse of religious evangelicals0.80text
Congress could not prohibit the import slave trade that was allowed in South Carolina until 1808instance ofunder the impulse of religious evangelicals0.80text
Major Pierce Butler of South Carolina tried to persuade them to return to the United Statesinstance ofslaveholders0.80text
to no avail.The Americans protested that Britain's failure to return all slaves violated the Treaty of Ghentinstance ofslaveholders0.80text
Louisvilleinstance ofit also sold slaves who had been shipped downriver from markets0.80text
John Waylesinstance ofnotably0.80text
his son-in-law Thomas Jeffersoninstance ofnotably0.80text

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