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...an-American War]]. The expansionism, however, opened a furious debate over slavery in the new territories that was resolved by the [[Compromise of 1850]]. He ...former President [[Martin Van Buren]], who wanted to stop the expansion of slavery. Other candidates included [[James Buchanan]] (a moderate) and General [[Le

* No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

...hemes have been the class system of the plantation South and the role of [[slavery]]. These include the plantation masters and their families, as typified by ===Slavery===

...went to Cuba between 1847 and 1874 to work under conditions approximating slavery. See Moon-ho Jung, "Outlawing 'Coolies': Race, Nation, and Empire in the A

...garding such issues as the power of the Supreme Court and the abolition of slavery (he quietly favored gradual emancipation), and his absence from early prono ===Slavery===

...gion expanded as a riverine trade route, sending [[fur]], [[honey]], and [[slavery|slaves]] south to [[Constantinople]], and receiving luxury goods in return.

...or any portion of the same, shall be received into the Union with without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of the admission: Provided ...ed and twenty, either protecting, establishing, prohibiting, or abolishing slavery.

* Morgan, Edmund S. ''American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia'' (1975) Pulitzer Prize[

...a Shahinian]] ([[Armenia]]), Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of [[slavery]], including its causes and consequences.

#The new constitution must abolish slavery, punish Confederate leaders by distributing their property, and repudiate d

*Berlin, Ira. ''Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America'' 1998 ...novese, Eugene. ''Roll Jordan Roll'' (1976), the most influential study of slavery

===Black Loyalists and slavery===

...te to help lead the Civil War. Sumner was a leading exponent of abolishing slavery to weaken the Confederacy. Although he kept on good terms with Abraham Linc ...ly concerned that captured territories would expand [[slavery in the U.S. |slavery]] westward. In 1847, the vigor with which Sumner denounced a Boston congres

===Slavery=== ...that "rapidly increasing mechanization after 1850 would have soon rendered slavery obsolete anyhow. It would have been better for the USA to endure it a few

{{see also|U.S. slavery era}} All the American colonies had slavery, but it was usually the form of personal servants in the North (where 2% of

...nerations erred by being caught up in the social maelstrom of their times (slavery, eugenics… )”.<ref>Pilar Ossorio and Troy Duster (2005): ‘Race and Ge ...ology and psychology have at various times racially justified colonialism, slavery and disenfranchisement. Medicine's own intersections with concepts of race

===Debt Slavery===

...blicans) and made the ''Tribune'' its unofficial national organ. He fought slavery extension and the slave power on every page. On the eve of the Civil War c ..., Greeley argued that the war was over, the Confederacy was destroyed, and slavery was dead — and that [[Reconstruction]] was a success, so it was time to p

...'. University of Florida Press. (1973)[http://www.questia.com/library/book/slavery-and-plantation-growth-in-antebellum-florida-1821-1860-by-julia-floyd-smith.

...r being the first of their kind in America. His proposals to gradually end slavery were not reported out of committee. ...once a territory reached a certain population. Jefferson would not allow slavery in the territories. Many of Jefferson's ideas were passed into law after he