Slavery & Human Trafficking, 185-SLA
property" of the slaveholder, despite the obvious and grievous violation of human rights that this practice entailed. The abolition movement in western Europe and the Americas began in the late 18th century and was chiefly responsible for creating the emotional climate necessary for ending the transatlantic slave trade. Although slavery no longer exists as a legal phenomenon recognized by a political authority or government, human trafficking—a form of modern-day slavery that involves the illegal transport of individuals by force or deception for the purpose of labor, sexual exploitation, or financial gain—is a growing international phenomenon that affects people of all ages.
Slavery & Human Trafficking Encyclopedia Articles By Title
Compromise of 1850, in U.S. history, a series of measures proposed by the “great compromiser,” Sen. Henry Clay......
Ableman v. Booth, (1859), case in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld both the constitutionality of the Fugitive......
John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States (1825–29) and eldest son of President John Adams.......
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, novel by Mark Twain, published in the United Kingdom in 1884 and in the United......
Alabama Platform, in U.S. history, Southern political leader William L. Yancey’s response (1848) to the antislavery......
American Civil War, four-year war (1861–65) between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded from......
- Introduction
- Secession, Battles, Armies
- Battles, Armies, Impact
- Battle of Antietam, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg
- Bull Run, Manassas, Antietam
- Emancipation, Slavery, Union
- African Troops, Union, Confederacy
- Gettysburg, Emancipation, Union
- Secession, Slavery, Homefront
- Battles, Causes, Effects
- Conscription, Draft Riot, NYC
- Battles, Union, Confederacy
- Union, Confederacy, Emancipation
- Sherman's Campaigns, Total War
- Naval Battles, Blockades, Ironclads
- Cost, Significance, Impact
American Colonization Society, American organization dedicated to transporting freeborn blacks and emancipated......
Amistad mutiny, (July 2, 1839), slave rebellion that took place on the slave ship Amistad near the coast of Cuba......
John Albion Andrew was a U.S. antislavery leader who, as governor of Massachusetts during the Civil War, was one......
Anglo-Zanzibar War, (August 27, 1896), brief conflict between the British Empire and the East African island sultanate......
Anthony John Arkell was a historian and Egyptologist, an outstanding colonial administrator who combined a passion......
Sarah Baartman was an African woman who was enslaved and taken to Europe, where her body was put on display for......
St. Josephine Bakhita ; canonized October 1, 2000; feast day February 8) was a Sudanese-born Roman Catholic saint......
bandeira, Portuguese slave-hunting expedition into the Brazilian interior in the 17th century. The bandeirantes......
Beloved, novel by Toni Morrison, published in 1987 and winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The work......
Thomas Hart Benton was an American writer and Democratic Party leader who championed agrarian interests and westward......
Bleeding Kansas, (1854–59), small civil war in the United States, fought between proslavery and antislavery advocates......
The Book of Negroes, novel by Lawrence Hill, published in 2007 (under the title Someone Knows My Name in the United......
British Empire, a worldwide system of dependencies—colonies, protectorates, and other territories—that over a span......
Henry Box Brown was an American enslaved person who succeeded in escaping slavery by hiding in a packing crate......
William Wells Brown was an American writer who is considered to be the first African-American to publish a novel.......
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet was a British philanthropist and politician who, in 1822, succeeded William......
John C. Calhoun was an American political leader who was a congressman, the secretary of war, the seventh vice......
The Catcher in the Rye, novel by J.D. Salinger published in 1951. The novel details two days in the life of 16-year-old......
Joseph Cinqué was an enslaved African who led a revolt on the Amistad coastal slave ship in 1839. He was later......
Thomas Clarkson was an abolitionist, one of the first effective publicists of the English movement against the......
Clotilda, schooner built near the city of Mobile, Alabama, in 1855. The last known trafficking of enslaved people......
comfort women, a euphemism for women who provided sexual services to Japanese Imperial Army troops during Japan’s......
Compensated Emancipation Act, U.S. law that abolished slavery in the District of Columbia and stipulated that the......
Confederate States of America, in the American Civil War, the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from......
Confiscation Acts, (1861–64), in U.S. history, series of laws passed by the federal government during the American......
Samuel Cotton was an American antislavery activist and spokesman for the eradication of contemporary slavery in......
Crittenden Compromise, (1860–61), in U.S. history, series of measures intended to forestall the American Civil......
William Cushing was an American jurist who was the first appointee to the U.S. Supreme Court. Cushing graduated......
Dave the Potter was an American potter and poet who, while a slave in South Carolina, produced enormous stoneware......
debt slavery, a state of indebtedness to landowners or merchant employers that limits the autonomy of producers......
Martin Delany was an African American abolitionist, physician, and editor in the pre-Civil War period; his espousal......
Frederick Douglass was an African American abolitionist, orator, newspaper publisher, and author who is famous......
Dred Scott decision, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred......
Emancipation Proclamation, edict issued by U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, that freed the enslaved......
encomienda, in Spain’s American and Philippine colonies, legal system by which the Spanish crown attempted to define......
Olaudah Equiano was an abolitionist and writer whose autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah......
Eunus was the leader of a slave revolt against the Romans in Sicily from 135 to 132 bc. A Syrian by birth, Eunus......
John Hope Franklin was an American historian and educator noted for his scholarly reappraisal of the American Civil......
Free-Soil Party, (1848–54), minor but influential political party in the pre-Civil War period of American history......
Freeport Doctrine, position stated by Democratic U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas that settlers in a U.S. territory......
fugitive slave, any individual who escaped from slavery in the period before and including the American Civil War.......
Fugitive Slave Acts, in U.S. history, statutes passed by Congress in 1793 and 1850 (and repealed in 1864) that......
Gabriel was an American bondsman who planned the first major slave rebellion in U.S. history (Aug. 30, 1800). His......
Eugene D. Genovese was an American historian. He earned a doctorate at Columbia University and taught at Rutgers,......
Horace Greeley was an American newspaper editor who is known especially for his vigorous articulation of the North’s......
Gregory XVI was the pope from 1831 to 1846. His efforts to consolidate papal authority within the church were matched......
Haitian Revolution, series of conflicts between 1791 and 1804 between Haitian slaves, colonists, the armies of......
John Parker Hale was an American lawyer, senator, and reformer who was prominent in the antislavery movement. Educated......
Hinton Rowan Helper was the only prominent American Southern author to attack slavery before the outbreak of the......
Sally Hemings was an American slave who was owned by U.S. Pres. Thomas Jefferson and is widely believed to have......
Josiah Henson was an American labourer and clergyman who escaped slavery in 1830 and found refuge in Canada, where......
Elias Hicks was an early advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States and a liberal Quaker preacher......
Ebenezer R. Hoar was an American politician, a leading antislavery Whig in Massachusetts who was briefly attorney......
Samuel Hopkins was an American theologian and writer who was one of the first Congregationalists to oppose slavery.......
George Moses Horton was an African American poet who wrote sentimental love poems and antislavery protests. He......
human trafficking, form of modern-day slavery involving the illegal transport of individuals by force or deception......
David Hunter was a Union officer during the American Civil War who issued an emancipation proclamation (May 9,......
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, autobiographical narrative published in 1861 by Harriet......
Harriet Jacobs was an American abolitionist and autobiographer who crafted her own experiences into Incidents in......
Thomas Jefferson was the draftsman of the Declaration of Independence of the United States and the nation’s first......
Edward P. Jones is an American novelist and short-story writer whose works depict the effects of slavery in antebellum......
George W. Julian was an American reform politician who began as an abolitionist, served in Congress as a Radical......
Kansas-Nebraska Act, in the antebellum period of U.S. history, critical national policy change concerning the expansion......
Bartolomé de Las Casas was an early Spanish historian and Dominican missionary who was the first to expose the......
Lecompton Constitution, (1857), instrument framed in Lecompton, Kan., by Southern pro-slavery advocates of Kansas......
Mathematician and almanac-maker Benjamin Banneker was one of the most accomplished Black men in the early life......
The Liberator, weekly newspaper of abolitionist crusader William Lloyd Garrison for 35 years (January 1, 1831–December......
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States (1861–65), who preserved the Union during the American......
- Introduction
- Prairie Lawyer, Legal Career in Illinois, Herndon
- Family, Mary Todd & Sons, Religious Sense
- Whig Party, Illinois State Legislature, US Congress, Presidential Politics
- Road to Presidency, Stephen A. Douglas, Republican Party
- The Presidency, Crittenden Compromise, Fort Sumter
- Confederacy, Outbreak of American Civil War
- War Leader, Union Army, Emancipation Proclamation
- Wartime Politics, the Union Cause, 1864 Election
- Postwar Policy, Reconstruction, Assassination
- Reputation & Character, Cabinet
Lincoln-Douglas debates, series of seven debates between the Democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas and Republican......
George Mason was an American patriot and statesman who insisted on the protection of individual liberties in the......
Missouri Compromise, (1820), in U.S. history, measure worked out between the North and the South and passed by......
Nadia Murad is a Yazīdī human rights activist who was kidnapped by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL;......
Nashville Convention, (1850), two-session meeting of proslavery Southerners in the United States. John C. Calhoun......
Thomas Nast was an American cartoonist, best known for his attack on the political machine of William M. Tweed......
New York slave rebellion of 1712, a violent insurrection of slaves in New York City that resulted in brutal executions......
The North Star, antislavery newspaper published by African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass. First published......
Solomon Northup was an American farmer, labourer, and musician whose experience of being kidnapped and sold into......
Northwest Ordinances, several ordinances enacted by the U.S. Congress for the purpose of establishing orderly and......
Robert Dale Owen was an American social reformer and politician. The son of the English reformer Robert Owen, Robert......
Theodore Parker was an American Unitarian theologian, pastor, scholar, and social reformer who was active in the......
St. Peter Claver ; canonized 1888; feast day September 9) was a Jesuit missionary to South America who, in dedicating......
Pottawatomie Massacre, (May 24–25, 1856), murder of five men from a proslavery settlement on Pottawatomie Creek,......
Queiroz Law, (1850), measure enacted by the Brazilian parliament to make the slave trade illegal. In the mid-19th......
quilombo, in colonial Brazil, a community organized by fugitive slaves. Quilombos were located in inaccessible......
Radical Republican, during and after the American Civil War, a member of the Republican Party committed to emancipation......
On April 11, 1861, having been informed by messengers from Pres. Abraham Lincoln that he planned to resupply Fort......
- Introduction
- Memorials, Battles, Veterans
- Presidential Documents, Memory, Legacy
- Gettysburg Address, Union Victory, Emancipation
- Battles, Strategies, Losses
- Gettysburg, Antietam, Vicksburg
- Henry Timrod, Ethnogenesis, Poetry
- Henry Timrod, Charleston, Poetry
- Walt Whitman, Poetry, Reflection
- Daniel Emmett, Albert Pike, Dixie
- Photography, Art, Memory
- Timeline of events
- Memorials, Reenactments, Legacies
Rio Branco Law, measure enacted by the Brazilian parliament in 1871 that freed children born of slave parents.......
Edmund Ruffin was known as the father of soil chemistry in the United States, who showed how to restore fertility......
Victor Schoelcher was a French journalist and politician who was France’s greatest advocate of ending slavery in......
Carl Schurz was a German-American political leader, journalist, orator, and dedicated reformer who pressed for......
Dred Scott was an African American slave at the centre of the U.S. Supreme Court’s pivotal Dred Scott decision......
sex slavery, condition in which one human being is owned by another and is forced or otherwise coerced into working......
Mary Ann Shadd was an American educator, publisher, and abolitionist who was the first Black female newspaper publisher......
slave code, in U.S. history, any of the set of rules based on the concept that enslaved persons were property,......