A slavename is the personal name given by others to an enslaved person, or a name inherited from enslaved ancestors. In Rome, slaves were given a single...
slave trade trafficked people across the Black Sea from Europe and Caucasus to slavery in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. The Black Sea slave trade...
owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Contents A B C D E...
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...
identified by a name is called its referent. A personal name identifies, not necessarily uniquely, a specific individual human. The name of a specific entity...
The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was a law passed by the 31st United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850...
Indian Ocean slave trade, sometimes known as the East African slave trade and part of the Arab slave trade, was multi-directional slave trade and has...
A galley slave was a slave rowing in a galley, either a convicted criminal sentenced to work at the oar (French: galérien), or a kind of human chattel...
A slave rebellion is an armed uprising by slaves, as a way of fighting for their freedom. Rebellions of slaves have occurred in nearly all societies that...
Slavic tribe self-name *Slověne, turned into σκλάβος, εσκλαβήνος (Late Latin sclāvus) in the meaning 'prisoner of war slave', 'slave' in the 8th/9th century...
Slave ships were large cargo ships specially built or converted from the 17th to the 19th century for transporting slaves. Such ships were also known...
Saint's name Calendar of saints Slavename Thai name – somewhat special treatment of given names Theophoric name Theophory in the Bible Unisex name Bilingual...
The Slave Trade Act 1807, officially An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom prohibiting the slave...
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas...
A house slave was a slave who worked, and often lived, in the house of the slave-owner, performing domestic labor. House slaves performed essentially...
ancient world. When the trans-Saharan slave trade, Red Sea slave trade, Indian Ocean slave trade and Atlantic slave trade (which started in the 16th century)...
In the United States, fugitive slaves or runaway slaves were terms used in the 18th and 19th centuries to describe people who fled slavery. The term also...
White slavery (also white slave trade or white slave trafficking) refers to the enslavement of any of the world's European ethnic groups throughout human...
slave trade many Africans lost their native names and were forced by their owners to take the owners' surnames and any given name the owner or slave master...
Slavery existed in the Sultanate of Zanzibar until 1909. Slavery and slave trade existed in the Zanzibar Archipelago for thousands of years. When clove...
and enforced discipline upon slaves in the antebellum U.S. southern states. The slave patrols' function was to police slaves, especially those who escaped...
ethnicities and religious groups. The social, economic, and legal positions of slaves have differed vastly in different systems of slavery in different times...
A slave market is a place where slaves are bought and sold. These markets became a key phenomenon in the history of slavery. In the Ottoman Empire during...
Slave breeding was the practice in slave states of the United States of white enslavers to systematically force the reproduction of enslaved people to...
Manumission, or enfranchisement, is the act of freeing slaves by their owners. Different approaches to manumission were developed, each specific to the...
Somali slave trade existed as a part of the East African slave trade. To meet the demand for menial labor, Bantus from southeastern Africa slaves were exported...
The slave codes were laws relating to slavery and enslaved people, specifically regarding the Atlantic slave trade and chattel slavery in the Americas...