Slavery

The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World. It was one leg of the triangular trade route.

anti-narcotics campaign, criminalizing black paople by the Nixon government

Black communities in the US are far more policed than white communities, many black people who live in poverty can’t afford good lawyers.

less than human, used to mean that sb.behaves or lives in a much worse way than human beings normally do.

people who wanted to stop or abolish slavery

prisons leasing convicts to private companies for free labor

born into slavery, disabled after being hit in the head with metal by her owner, escaped slavery, helped slaves escape, spy

the act of putting or keeping someone in prison

A network of people, both whites and free Blacks, who worked together to help runaways from slaveholding states travel to the North

slaves were entirely the property of their owners

slavery is still allowed in the United States, as long as the slaves in question are criminals.

e.g. Frederick Douglas, Harriett Tubman, John Brown