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Afro-American religion

Afro-American religions (also African diasporic religions) are a number of related religions that developed in the Americas among enslaved Africans and their descendants in various countries of Latin America, the Caribbean, and parts of the southern United States.

Pitts' Folly

The 1860 United States Census of Perry County indicates that Phillip Henry Pitts owned 75 slaves in that year, though his children are individually listed as owning an additional 68 slaves.

Ray Kamalay

He connects those movements with major periods and events in American history, such as the time of slavery.

Richard Busteed

Busteed not only had enemies from the election of 1860, he had made new ones for his strong support of the administration and his stance on the slavery question.

Sam Aleckson

Sam B. Aleckson (1852–1914) was an American slave, known for authoring Before the War and After the Union: An Autobiography.

The Civil War in the United States

The articles promote the Union side of the war, arguing that the conflict was fundamentally about slavery.

Carusu

The horrific conditions in Sicilian sulfur mines prompted Booker T. Washington − himself an African American born a slave – to write in 1910: "I am not prepared just now to say to what extent I believe in a physical hell in the next world, but a sulphur mine in Sicily is about the nearest thing to hell that I expect to see in this life."

Stewart County, Georgia

Before the American Civil War, planters depended on enslaved labor of thousands of African Americans to cultivate and process the cotton for market.

Supreme Court of Missouri

Slavery; holding that slaves taken into free states became free; overturned twenty years later by Dred Scott v. Sandford.

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