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The modern [[Caribbean]] [[state]] of '''Jamaica''', born from the [[slavery|slave]] trade and [[colonialism|colonial]] activities of [[Europe]]an natio

...''' was a proposal, never adopted, for Congress to forbid the expansion of slavery into the Southwest, especially New Mexico. It inflamed sectional tensions a ...on to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico…neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory.''

*Morrison, Michael. ''Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of th

...ales receipts and price information to reconstruct the economic history of slavery.

...torical Review'', 16 (Sept. 1929), 151-71, (in JSTOR) Ramsdell claims that slavery had almost reached its outer limits of growth by 1860, so war was unnecessa ...ry Beard. ''The Rise of American Civilization.'' Two volumes. (1927), says slavery was minor factor in the Civil War.

...e [[Global March Against Child Labour]], which campaigned against [[modern slavery]]. He has also been involved in the fight against [[forced marriage]].<ref>

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...is essays, including ''Civil Disobedience'', ''Life Without Principle'', ''Slavery in Massachusetts'', and ''A Plea for Captain John Brown''.

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== Slavery ==

...f> The concept of the back door man as lover may also stem from the post-[[slavery]] phenomenon of the [[sweet back papas]]. These were men who dodged a lifet

...orld Slavery'' (1998), 456pp [http://www.amazon.com/Historical-Guide-World-Slavery/dp/0195120914/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197165161&sr=8-1 excerpt and * Finkelman, Paul, and Joseph Miller eds. ''Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery'' (1998)

...e and their difficulty in assimilating into society after being freed from slavery.

...rt of the Compromise of 1850 and hostility to any efforts to agitate the [[slavery]] question. But they balloted 48 times and eliminated all of the well-known ...s, who accused him of acting as a cat's-paw of Southerners eager to extend slavery into other areas. Therefore, he aroused apprehension when he pressured the

...]], and also in states and territories such as Kentucky and Missouri where slavery had in danger of becoming established before that war. [[Mississippi (U.S.

...arity of language, and cogency of argument about why Virginia adopted both slavery (for blacks) and freedom (for whites). Two early books, ''Birth of the Repu

* Williams, Heather Andrea. ''Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom'' U of North Carolina Press, 2006 * Finley, Randy. ''From Slavery to Uncertain Future: the Freedmen's Bureau in Arkansas, 1865-1869'' U. of A

* Cimprich, John. ''Slavery's End in Tennessee, 1861-1865'' University of Alabama, 1985. ISBN 08173118

...), was an American historian, lawyer, journalist, novelist, reformer, anti-slavery activist, and philosopher. He is best known for his well-researched, highly ...ter retitled and revised) and made notes for a polemical-critical essay on slavery, published in 1840 as ''Despotism in America'', which gained him some fame