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

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

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

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

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

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

• Margaret WalkerRelated: The institution’s violence and family separations shape the world depicted in Jubilee.

• E. Franklin FrazierRelated: Frazier traced the disruption of African American family and kinship structures to slavery.

• Jefferson MemorialRelated: Jefferson’s ownership of enslaved people complicates the universal language celebrated by the monument.

• Statue of FreedomRelated: The dispute over the cap unfolded amid a nation divided over slavery and emancipation.