Slavery
Slavery is when the person owns another person. The person who is owned is called the slave. The slave has to work, and has no choice. They belong to another person who makes am work, and can even sell am to someone else. Slavery was the very normal thing more than 150 years ago, but now most people know it is wrong, and most countries do not allow it.
In the 19th century, Britain and the United States stopped slavery. They made it the crime to own slaves. In the United States, it stopped after the American Civil War. When the North won, all slaves were made free. When that happens, it is called "abolition". Different types of slavery still exist today in some poor countries.
Famous people who were slaves[edit]
- Aesop circa 6th century BC
- Spartacus (died 71 BC)
- Epictetus (AD 55- circa 135)
- Pope Callixtus I (died AD 222)
- Saint Patrick (circa AD 387-461)
- Olaudah Equiano (circa 1745-1797)
- George John Scipio Africanus (1763-1834)
- Denmark Vesey (circa 1767-1822)
- Sojourner Truth (circa 1797-1883)
- Dred Scott (circa 1799-1858)
- Nat Turner (1800-1831)
- Frederick Douglass (circa 1818-1895)
- Harriet Tubman (1820-1913)
- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
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