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[[File:Cicatrices_de_flagellation_sur_un_esclave.jpg|thumb|300px|Whip wounds on a slave's back.]]{{Quote|Slavery is ~~essentially barbarous in its character. It, above all things else, dreads~~ the ~~presence of an advanced civilization. It flourishes best where it meets no reproving frowns, and hears no condemning voices~~.|[[wikipedia:~~Frederick Douglass~~|~~Frederick Douglass~~]]}}'''Slavery''' is the unconditional servitude of one individual to another. A slave is usually acquired by purchase and legally described as chattel or a tangible form of movable property.

[[File:Cicatrices_de_flagellation_sur_un_esclave.jpg|thumb|300px|Whip wounds on a slave's back.]]{{Quote|Slavery was pure and unadulterated evil. There is no other side to the story.|[[wikipedia:Dan Rather|Dan Rather]]}}'''Slavery''' is the unconditional servitude of one individual to another. A slave is usually acquired by purchase and legally described as chattel or a tangible form of movable property.

For much of human history, slavery has constituted an important dimension of social and occupational organization. The word slavery originated with the sale of Slavs to the Black Sea region during the ninth century. Slavery existed in European society until the nineteenth century, and it was the principal source of labor during the process of European colonization.

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== People who engaged in slavery ==

* Christopher Columbus

* [[Christopher Columbus]]

* Amerigo Vespucci

* [[Amerigo Vespucci]]

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*[[Nathan Bedford Forrest]]

*[[Rameses the Great]]

*[[Jefferson Davis]]

*[[Adolf Hitler]]

*[[Andrew Jackson]]

*[[Andrew Johnson]]

[[Category:Villainous Event]]

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-[[File:Cicatrices_de_flagellation_sur_un_esclave.jpg|thumb|300px|Whip wounds on a slave's back.]]{{Quote|Slavery is essentially barbarous in its character. It, above all things else, dreads the presence of an advanced civilization. It flourishes best where it meets no reproving frowns, and hears no condemning voices.|[[wikipedia:Frederick Douglass|Frederick Douglass]]}}'''Slavery''' is the unconditional servitude of one individual to another. A slave is usually acquired by purchase and legally described as chattel or a tangible form of movable property.
+[[File:Cicatrices_de_flagellation_sur_un_esclave.jpg|thumb|300px|Whip wounds on a slave's back.]]{{Quote|Slavery was pure and unadulterated evil. There is no other side to the story.|[[wikipedia:Dan Rather|Dan Rather]]}}'''Slavery''' is the unconditional servitude of one individual to another. A slave is usually acquired by purchase and legally described as chattel or a tangible form of movable property.
 For much of human history, slavery has constituted an important dimension of social and occupational organization. The word slavery originated with the sale of Slavs to the Black Sea region during the ninth century. Slavery existed in European society until the nineteenth century, and it was the principal source of labor during the process of European colonization.
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 == People who engaged in slavery ==
-* Christopher Columbus
+* [[Christopher Columbus]]
-* Amerigo Vespucci
+* [[Amerigo Vespucci]]
-*
+*[[Nathan Bedford Forrest]]
+*[[Rameses the Great]]
+*[[Jefferson Davis]]
+*[[Adolf Hitler]]
+*[[Andrew Jackson]]
+*[[Andrew Johnson]]
 [[Category:Villainous Event]]