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Slavery in the Antebellum U.S.: 1820–1840

Slavery in the U.S.

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Slave Codes

African slaves working in seventeenth-century Virginia, by an unknown artist, 1670

African slaves working in seventeenth-century Virginia, by an unknown artist, 1670

Slaves were kept tightly in control through the establishment of slave codes, or laws dictating their status and rights.

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"African slave trade."

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