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