Slavery
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Slavery is when a person owns another person. The person who is owned is called a slave. The slave has to work, and has no choice. They belong to another person who makes them work, and can even sell them to someone else. Slavery was a very normal thing more than 150 years ago, but now most people know it is wrong, and most countries do not allow it.
In the 19th century, Britain and the United States stopped slavery. They made it a crime to own slaves. In the United States, it stopped after the American Civil War. When the North won, all slaves were made free. When that happens, it is called "abolition". Different types of slavery still exist today in some poor countries.
[edit] Famous people who were slaves
- Aesop circa 6th century BC
- Spartacus (died 71 BC)
- Epictetus (AD 55- circa 135)
- Pope Callixtus I (died AD 222)
- Saint Patrick (circa AD 387-461)
- Olaudah Equiano (circa 1745-1797)
- George John Scipio Africanus (1763-1834)
- Denmark Vesey (circa 1767-1822)
- Sojourner Truth (circa 1797-1883)
- Dred Scott (circa 1799-1858)
- Nat Turner (1800-1831)
- Frederick Douglass (circa 1818-1895)
- Harriet Tubman (1820-1913)
- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
[edit] See also
- unfree labour
- Slave trade
- Slave narrative
- Wage slavery
- Sexual slavery
- Conscription
- debt bondage
- forced labor
- Coolie trade
- Coolitude
- Coolie
- Aapravasi Ghat
- Magdalen Asylums
- Slave rebellion
- Indentured servants
- North Carolina v. Mann
- History of slavery in the United States
- Origins of the American Civil War
