Slavery

Items with "Legal Concept: Slavery"
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Winny v. Phebe Whitesides alias Prewitt		This case was the first freedom suit heard by the Missouri Supreme Court. Winny claimed her freedom on account of being brought into the free territory of what would become Illinois before being removed to Missouri. The court found in favor of her freedom, establishing a "once free, always free" precedent that was eventually overturned by the decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford.

Title: Slavery
Description: Racial slavery resulted from the European colonization of the Americas and was codified in law and legal institutions. Approximately 2.5-5 million Indigenous people were targeted for enslavement within the Americas, while the Transatlantic slave trade forced an estimated 10-11 million Africans into slavery. When the U.S. and other nations outlawed the international slave trade in 1808, a domestic slave trade quickly expanded and took its place within the U.S., where more than 1.5 million people were sold and separated from family. The debate over the expansion of slavery during the 19th century culminated in the American Civil War, which resulted in a Union victory and the prohibition of slavery with the 1865 ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Title: Slavery
Description: Racial slavery resulted from the European colonization of the Americas and was codified in law and legal institutions. Approximately 2.5-5 million Indigenous people were targeted for enslavement within the Americas, while the Transatlantic slave trade forced an estimated 10-11 million Africans into slavery. When the U.S. and other nations outlawed the international slave trade in 1808, a domestic slave trade quickly expanded and took its place within the U.S., where more than 1.5 million people were sold and separated from family. The debate over the expansion of slavery during the 19th century culminated in the American Civil War, which resulted in a Union victory and the prohibition of slavery with the 1865 ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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