Slavery is the condition of being owned or controlled by another.
Actual slavery is involuntary servitude as the property of someone else. Slaves are not free, independent individuals, but are subjugated or regulated by their owners. Slaves are normally used as unpaid workers or laborers.
The idea of slavery is often used metaphorically (as is imprisonment) when someone feels trapped or controlled by their circumstances. E.g. "a slave to his job", "a slave to Video Games".
Slavery was present from American colonial times through the end of the Civil War. The principle reason for slavery in the United States was economic. Slavery provided a source of cheap and plentiful workers for labor-intensive agricultural activity. The agrarian South relied heavily on slave labor to work on plantations growing cotton, tobacco, and other crops. The eventual rise of mechanized farming would have ended the economic rationale for slave labor, but moral objections to slavery in the northern US crystalized by 1861 and were a major reason for the Civil War. Ending slavery became a political imperative for the North and keeping slavery was an economic need of the South.
To stop the spread of slavery
True. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 attempted to settle the issue of slavery in newly acquired territories by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while also establishing a line at 36°30' latitude where slavery would be prohibited in future states north of it. However, the underlying tensions over slavery eventually led to its unraveling.
Believable is most likely to be the definition of credible.
An abolitionist is someone that wants to end slavery. In the United States, abolitionists worked to end the African and Native American slave trade and give those slaves their full freedom.
The practice or system of owning slaves.
Ending the practice of slavery
The legal act of ending slavery.
Pro-slavery refers to beliefs, actions, or policies that support or advocate for the institution of slavery, in which individuals are treated as property and forced to work without pay.
Slave state is a state that was FOR slavery back in the day.
Slavery has probably existed as long as there have been people, and possibly longer, depending on how generous your definition of "people" is.
Definition: An approval to free slaves from slavery.
Um. Dude, it's slavery. Ya don't get paid. Maybe they feed and shelter you, but that is kind of part of the definition of slavery. Forced servitude with no particular benefit to the enslaved.
Camphor is a by product of trees that was ingested by slaves to produce abortion
Slavery ended for a variety of reasons. The War of Northern Aggression which wasn't a civil war by any definition had nothing to do with the ending of slavery. Please see the related link to (Thomas) DiLorenzo on Lincoln.
Orlando Patterson defines slavery as the permanent, violent domination of natally alienated and generally dishonored persons. He emphasizes how slavery involves total control over the lives and labor of individuals with no legal or social status.
Someone who is againist Slavery and can either be from the North and or the South