CREDOReference - History - Slavery and the Slave Trade

Slavery and Abolition from CREDOReference

Abolition movement
A movement culminating in the late 18th and early 19th centuries that aimed first to end the slave trade, and then to abolish the institution of slavery and emancipate slaves. The movement took place in Europe, mainly in the UK, and in the USA.
Civil War, US
Atlantic slave trade
Dred Scott decision
US Supreme Court decision of 1857 which denied ‘blacks’ (African Americans) US citizenship and made slavery legal in all US territories
Emancipation Proclamation
in U.S. history, the executive order abolishing slavery in the Confederate States of America.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
bill that became law on May 30, 1854, by which the U.S. Congress established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.