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Slavery in the United States
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Slavery_in_the_United_States
GPTKB entity
Statements (59)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:museum
gptkbp:abolished
gptkb:Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
gptkbp:endDate
1865
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Slavery in the United States
gptkbp:imported
gptkb:West_Africa
gptkbp:importedVia
transatlantic slave trade
gptkbp:involves
gptkb:African-American
African slaves
slaveholders
plantation owners
gptkbp:legacy
gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement
gptkb:Jim_Crow_laws
gptkb:Reconstruction_Era
systemic racism
racial inequality in the United States
segregation
gptkbp:legalStatus
illegal in Northern states (by 1804)
legal in Southern states
gptkbp:location
gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:mainEconomicActivity
agriculture
cotton production
sugar production
tobacco production
gptkbp:notableAbolitionist
gptkb:Frederick_Douglass
gptkb:Harriet_Beecher_Stowe
gptkb:Harriet_Tubman
gptkb:John_Brown
gptkb:Sojourner_Truth
gptkb:William_Lloyd_Garrison
gptkbp:notableCase
gptkb:Black_Codes
gptkb:Compromise_of_1850
gptkb:Dred_Scott_v._Sandford
gptkb:Three-Fifths_Compromise
gptkb:Prigg_v._Pennsylvania
gptkb:Slave_Codes
gptkb:Amistad_case
gptkb:Fugitive_Slave_Act_of_1850
gptkb:Kansas-Nebraska_Act
gptkbp:notablePublication
gptkb:Uncle_Tom's_Cabin
gptkb:The_Liberator
gptkb:Incidents_in_the_Life_of_a_Slave_Girl
gptkb:Narrative_of_the_Life_of_Frederick_Douglass
gptkbp:notableSlaveRevolt
gptkb:Gabriel's_Rebellion
gptkb:Stono_Rebellion
gptkb:Nat_Turner's_Rebellion
gptkbp:numberOfEnslavedPeople
approximately 4 million (1860)
gptkbp:relatedEvent
gptkb:American_Civil_War
gptkb:Emancipation_Proclamation
gptkb:Underground_Railroad
gptkb:Dred_Scott_v._Sandford
gptkb:Missouri_Compromise
gptkb:Abolitionist_movement
gptkb:Fugitive_Slave_Act
gptkbp:startDate
1619
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Compromise_of_1850
gptkb:Dred_Scott_v._Sandford
gptkb:Fugitive_Slave_Act_of_1850
gptkb:Slaves_Without_Masters
gptkbp:bfsLayer
5