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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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

• Kara WalkerNarrower topic: Its continuing cultural and political legacies form the historical ground of much of her art.

• Nat LoveNarrower topic: Love was born enslaved in Tennessee before emancipation transformed his legal status.

• DrapetomaniaNarrower topic: The diagnosis emerged to defend this system against the meaning of escape.

• George FitzhughNarrower topic: This was the institution Fitzhugh defended as both socially protective and economically preferable.