The treatment of slaves in the United States often included sexual abuse and rape, the denial of education, and punishments like whippings. Families were...
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Torture of slaves in the United States was fairly common, as part of what many slavers claimed was necessary discipline. As one history put it, "Stinted...
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Slave breeding was the practice in slave states of the United States of slave owners systematically forcing slaves to have children to increase their wealth...
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officials who owned slaves Slavery in the District of Columbia Treatment of slaves in the United States Polk Taylor, reportedly owned by Zachary Taylor's daughter...
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opponents as a slave trader who transacted in slaves in defiance of modern standards or morality. The treatment of slaves in the United States varied widely...
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hands were slaves who labored on plantations. They were commonly used to plant, tend, and harvest cotton, sugar, rice, and tobacco. Field slaves usually...
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Slave quarters in the United States, sometimes called slave cabins, were a form of residential vernacular architecture constructed during the era of slavery...
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Slave Songs of the United States was a collection of African American music consisting of 136 songs. Published in 1867, it was the first, and most influential...
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The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of enslaved people who escaped from one...
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