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The 60 pages that link to Slavery in the United States, each with the reason it gives.

• American Civil WarNarrower topic: The protection and expansion of slavery drove Southern secession and shaped the war's stakes.

• American RevolutionRelated: Independence's language of liberty coexisted with the expansion and survival of slavery.

• Haitian RevolutionCompared with: The revolution’s immediate abolition contrasts with the United States’ decades of continued slavery.

• Thomas JeffersonRelated: Jefferson enslaved hundreds of people while publicly advancing claims of natural equality.

• African American musicRelated: Enslavement shaped the conditions in which spirituals, work songs, and other traditions developed.

• Dred Scott v. SandfordNarrower topic: The decision’s claims about citizenship and property concerned the legal order sustaining this institution.

• Racial segregation in the United StatesNarrower topic: It established racial hierarchy and exclusion that survived emancipation.

• Booker T. WashingtonNarrower topic: Washington was born enslaved in Virginia before emancipation.

• Thirteenth Amendment to the United States ConstitutionNarrower topic: The amendment’s prohibition marked a constitutional break with this institution.

• Missouri CompromiseRelated: The dispute centered on whether slavery could expand into new federal territories.

• United States Declaration of IndependenceCompared with: The declaration’s language of liberty coexisted with slavery, a contradiction that shaped its reception.

• SpiritualsNarrower topic: Enslaved communities created spirituals amid forced labor, family separation, and restricted religious freedom.

• Southern United StatesRelated: Enslaved labor profoundly shaped the region’s economy, politics, and culture.

• Institutional racismNarrower topic: Its legal and economic legacies shaped institutions long after emancipation.

• John C. CalhounNarrower topic: Calhoun’s political theory increasingly treated slavery as a positive good deserving constitutional protection.

• Westward expansionRelated: Each new territory raised disputes over whether slavery could expand there.

• Texas annexationNarrower topic: Texas entered as a slave state, sharpening sectional disputes over political power.

• Northwest OrdinanceNarrower topic: The ordinance barred slavery in its territory while slavery remained legal in much of the country.

• Slavery in BrazilCompared with: Comparison highlights differences in scale, law, emancipation, and post-slavery racial regimes.

• Jefferson DavisRelated: Davis defended slavery, the institution at the center of secession and the Confederate cause.

• John James AudubonRelated: Audubon lived and worked within slaveholding societies, a central part of evaluating his historical legacy.

• National Museum of African American History and CultureBroader topic: The museum traces slavery’s history and its continuing effects.

• Adventures of Huckleberry FinnNarrower topic: Jim’s flight makes slavery the central legal and moral reality shaping the journey.

• Free Soil PartyNarrower topic: The party focused on preventing this institution from spreading into federal territories.

• Racial passingNarrower topic: Enslavement and its aftermath created racial hierarchies in which ancestry and appearance could have sharply different consequences.

• Zachary TaylorNarrower topic: The expansion of slavery into lands taken from Mexico defined Taylor’s most consequential domestic dispute.

• Era of Good FeelingsRelated: The Missouri crisis showed that slavery remained a profound source of political conflict.

• History of the United StatesRelated: Slavery shaped the economy, political conflicts, and social hierarchy across generations.

• Medical racismRelated: Enslavement made Black bodies subject to medical surveillance and experimentation without consent.

• American historiographyRelated: Historians’ treatment of slavery has reshaped explanations of the nation’s economy, politics, and founding ideals.

• Kunta KinteRelated: Kunta’s enslavement in Maryland places his story within this institution.

• Martha WashingtonNarrower topic: Martha’s wealth and domestic authority were inseparable from this national institution.

• P. G. T. BeauregardRelated: The Confederacy Beauregard served was founded to protect slavery, the central cause of secession.

• PolygenismRelated: Polygenist writings were used to defend slavery and racial subordination.

• Southern AgrariansNarrower topic: Criticism of Agrarian nostalgia often asks how its vision relates to the South’s history of slavery.

• African-American danceRelated: Enslaved people preserved and reshaped movement practices under coercive conditions.

• Dolley MadisonNarrower topic: The Madison household depended on enslaved labor, complicating celebratory accounts of her hospitality.

• Harriet JacobsNarrower topic: Jacobs’s account exposes how this institution controlled enslaved people’s lives.

• John Hope FranklinRelated: The history of slavery anchors Franklin’s account of Black life and American development.

• Phillis WheatleyNarrower topic: Her life and authorship unfolded under enslavement in colonial Massachusetts.

• Benjamin BannekerRelated: Banneker’s freedom and public arguments unfolded within a society built around racial slavery.

• Drew Gilpin FaustRelated: Slavery’s human and political consequences are central to Faust’s Civil War scholarship.

• Jeffersonian democracyRelated: Jeffersonian claims of liberty coexisted with Jefferson’s enslavement of people and the republic’s protection of slavery.

• Jesmyn WardNarrower topic: Let Us Descend confronts this history through the experience of an enslaved protagonist.

• Roots: The Saga of an American FamilyNarrower topic: The novel depicts how slavery constrained family bonds, names, and cultural transmission.

• Southern Baptist ConventionRelated: Disagreement over slaveholders’ eligibility for missionary service drove the founding division.

• J. Marion SimsNarrower topic: Enslavement enabled Sims to control the treatment and labor of the women he operated on.

• African AmericansBroader topic: It shaped family histories, social conditions, and institutions for generations.

• Colonial history of the United StatesRelated: Colonial racial slavery became a defining institution of the new nation.

• History of North AmericaBroader topic: Its legacy shaped racial hierarchies, labor systems, and political conflicts beyond emancipation.