slavery history
Human ownership chronicles
The history of slavery encompasses the millennia-long practice of humans owning other humans as property.
This history spans ancient civilizations through the transatlantic slave trade, American chattel slavery, and abolition movements of the 18th and 19th centuries.
The museum's exhibit on slavery history drew large crowds.
The phrase often appears in debates about education curricula and how unflinchingly schools should teach this past.
- Civil WarCountrymen fighting countrymen
- cotton economyAgriculture system based on fiber crop
- abolitionismMovement to end oppression
- whipStrikes or aerates
- Underground RailroadCovert abolitionist escape network
Frederick Douglass · Harriet Tubman · freedom papers · human cargo · slave ship · truth commissions · triangular trade · debt bondage · oral histories · Middle Passage · racial inequality · slave revolts · Juneteenth · emancipation · transatlantic slave trade · wealth disparity · forced labor · systemic racism
- US HistoryAmerican Revolution, Civil War, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, US Constitution
- state historystatehood, state constitution, state capitals, founding documents, state borders
- Dutch CaribbeanAruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Palm Beach, Dutch settlers
- North CarolinaTar Heel, Great Smoky Mountains, Blue Ridge Parkway, Outer Banks, Asheville
- Afro-PortugueseAngolans, Mozambicans, Lusophone Africa, Lisbon, Creole
- Black BeltAlabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina
slavery historyfreedom movements
Campaigns seeking political autonomy
liberation movements · civil rights history · independence movements · self-determination