But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America. It happened gradually -- one person at a time, one law at a time, even one colony at a time. One of the places we have the ...

But later in life, after his exposure to the ideals of the American Revolution ... to Robert Morris Though only 25% of the colonial population owned slaves, slavery factored heavily in the ...

Information or research assistance regarding American Slavery is frequently requested from the Smithsonian Institution. The following information has been prepared to assist those interested in this ...

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In the same vein, colonial rule and influx of ... This gap in awareness is partly due to the fact that American history, particularly the history of slavery and the African diaspora in the ...

"Casta" is Spanish for caste and these "casta paintings" are incredibly frank documents--unparalleled by anything in our time--of the race-based social hierarchy that existed in colonial Latin America ...