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  2. Slave states and free states - Wikipedia

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    In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they were prohibited. Between 1812 and 1850, it was considered by the slave states to be politically imperative that the number of free states not exceed the number of slave states ...

  3. List of Underground Railroad sites - Wikipedia

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    After she freed herself from slavery, she helped other enslaved people reach freedom in Canada. The town was a final stop on the Underground Railroad for many people. [13] Sandwich First Baptist Church – Windsor. [1] The church was built just over the border from the United States in Windsor, Ontario by blacks who came to Canada to live free.

  4. Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom - Wikipedia

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    Definitive suppression of the transatlantic slave trade. United States: The Wyandotte Constitution establishes the future state of Kansas as a free state, after four years of armed conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in the territory. Southern dominance in the U.S. Senate delays the admission of Kansas as a state until 1861. Russia

  5. History of slavery - Wikipedia

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    Islamic law approved of enslavement of non-Muslims, and slaves were trafficked from non-Muslim lands: from the North via the Balkan slave trade and the Crimean slave trade; from the East via the Bukhara slave trade; from the West via Andalusian slave trade; and from the South via the Trans-Saharan slave trade, the Red Sea slave trade and the ...

  6. Slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Of the 1,515,605 free families in the fifteen slave states in 1860, nearly 400,000 held slaves (roughly one in four, or 25%), [173] amounting to 8% of all American families. [174] Ashley's Sack is a cloth that recounts a slave sale separating a mother and her daughter. The sack belonged to a nine-year-old girl Ashley and was a parting gift from ...

  7. List of freedmen's towns - Wikipedia

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    Many of these municipalities were established or populated by freed slaves [2] either during or after the period of legal slavery in the United States in the 19th century. [ 3 ] In Oklahoma before the end of segregation there existed dozens of these communities as many African-American migrants from the Southeast found a space whereby they ...

  8. File:Abolition of slavery in the United States SVG map.svg

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    The Missouri Compromise, 1821: applied to what are now Iowa, western and southern Minnesota, the Dakotas, Nebraska, the part of Kansas then belonging to the US, the northern part of Oklahoma, and the parts of Montana and Wyoming lying east of the Continental Divide; explicitly repealed in 1850, but efforts to introduce slavery were effectively foiled until the abolition of slavery in the ...

  9. History of slavery in the United States by state - Wikipedia

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    Slavery in the United States was legally abolished nationwide within the 36 newly reunited states under the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, effective December 18, 1865. Slavery in the Indian Territory was abolished in 1866 a series of treaties with each of the Five Civilized Tribes , agreements known today as the ...