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  2. Slavery in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Slavery in South Africa existed from 1653 in the Dutch Cape Colony until the abolition of slavery in the British Cape Colony on 1 January 1834. This followed the British banning the trade of slaves between colonies in 1807, with their emancipation by 1834. Beyond legal abolition, slavery continued in the Transvaal though a system of ...

  3. John Quincy Adams and abolitionism - Wikipedia

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    John Quincy Adams by Gilbert Stuart, 1818. John Quincy Adams was born into a family that never owned slaves, and was hostile to the practice. His mother, Abigail Adams, held strong anti-slavery views. His father, President John Adams, despite opposing a 1777 bill in Massachusetts to emancipate slaves, opposed slavery on principle and considered ...

  4. History of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    The conflict ended almost as soon as it began with a decisive Boer victory at Battle of Majuba Hill (27 February 1881). The republic regained its independence as the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek ("South African Republic"), or ZAR. Paul Kruger, one of the leaders of the uprising, became President of the ZAR in 1883.

  5. Apartheid - Wikipedia

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    Main articles: History of South Africa (1815–1910) and History of South Africa (1910–1948) Apartheid is an Afrikaans [22] word meaning "separateness", or "the state of being apart", literally " apart -hood " (from the Afrikaans suffix -heid ). [23] [24] Its first recorded use was in 1929.

  6. American Colonization Society - Wikipedia

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    The American Colonization Society ( ACS ), initially the Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, was an American organization founded in 1816 by Robert Finley to encourage and support the repatriation of freeborn people of color and emancipated slaves to the continent of Africa. It was modeled on an earlier British ...

  7. Slavery in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Slavery has historically been widespread in Africa. Systems of servitude and slavery were common in parts of Africa in ancient times, as they were in much of the rest of the ancient world. [1] When the trans-Saharan slave trade, Red Sea slave trade, Indian Ocean slave trade and Atlantic slave trade (which started in the 16th century) began ...

  8. Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom - Wikipedia

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    1810. New Spain. Independence leader Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla proclaimed the abolition of slavery three months after the start of the Independence of Mexico from Spain. 1811. United Kingdom. Slave trading made a felony punishable by transportation for both British subjects and foreigners.

  9. Racism in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Racism in South Africa. Racism in South Africa can be traced back to the earliest historical accounts of interactions between African, Asian, and European peoples along the coast of Southern Africa. [1] [2] It has existed throughout several centuries of the history of South Africa, [1] [2] dating back to the Dutch colonization of Southern ...

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