The transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people , mainly from Africa to the Americas, and then their sale there
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Slave Auction
This was when slave owners would clean up their slaves and sell them to other slave owners for money
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Slave Codes
Slave codes were state laws that established to determine the status of slaves and the rights of their owners. It placed harsh restrictions on slaves to preempt rebellion or escape and gave slave owners absolute power over their slaves.
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Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
It was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850 as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers
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Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
It required governments and residents of free states to enforce the capture and return of fugitive slaves
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Manumission
Or affranchisement, is the act of an owner freeing his or her slaves, each specific to the time and place of a particular society
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The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. [more]
Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]
