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  2. Racism against African Americans in the U.S. military

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    From the beginning the war was motivated in the South to secede into a separate nation to preserve slavery, which was legal in and crucial to the economies of every Confederate state; in the North, the war was primarily to preserve the union of the United States of America which the Confederate States aimed to abandon, while also abolishing ...

  3. History of forced labor in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The increasing scrutiny of totalitarianism in the lead-up to World War II brought increased attention to issues of slavery and involuntary servitude, abroad and at home. [30] The U.S. sought to counter foreign propaganda and increase its credibility on the race issue by combatting the Southern peonage system. [31]

  4. Peter (enslaved man) - Wikipedia

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    Negatives for the first two images may have been exposed on the same day, while the third photo was taken at a later time. [5] The original images of Peter and Gordon, and at least two other known photos of contrabands photographed by McPherson & Oliver, were taken in a "makeshift studio with a hanging sheet for a backdrop and bare ground". [21]

  5. Bryan Stevenson: America's failure to deal with history of ...

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    When it comes to white supremacy, Stevenson says he doesn't view recent trend as a resurgence, but an outcome of our practiced denial around America's past.

  6. History of slavery - Wikipedia

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    This bill was based on the arguments given by the best Spanish theologists and jurists who were unanimous in the condemnation of such slavery as unjust; they declared it illegitimate and outlawed it from America—not just the slavery of Spaniards over Natives—but also the type of slavery practiced among the Natives themselves [355] Thus ...

  7. Double V campaign - Wikipedia

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    Domestically, official channels began to take notice of the growing disaffection amongst African Americans in relation to their involvement in World War 2 as well as the 'Double V Campaign', with an Office of War Information report being published in 1942 detailing the condition in America.

  8. Black genocide in the United States - Wikipedia

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    After slavery ended, black women formed social groups and clubs in the 1890s to "uplift their race." [57] The revolutionary idea that a black woman might enjoy a full life without ever being a mother was presented in Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin's magazine The Woman's Era. Knowledge was secretly shared among clubwomen regarding how to find ...

  9. Treatment of slaves in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A concise view of the slavery of the people of color in the United States; exhibiting some of the most affecting cases of cruel and barbarous treatment of the slaves by their most inhuman and brutal masters; not heretofore published: and also showing the absolute necessity for the most speedy abolition of slavery, with an endeavor to point out ...