The clause reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary still wished to continue it.

The adherence of many in the population to the Indian background in their pedigree, and emphasis upon the fact that their ancestors had never been slaves, becomes of prime interest in determining how far these elements promote the self-image of the intermediate status of the group in society.

“ The earliest decree in which the children clerics were declared to be slaves and never to be enfranchised seems to have been a canon of the Synod of Pavia in 1018.

Benin was never a significant exporter of slaves, as Alan Ryder's book Benin and the Europeans showed.

African slaves who fought for the Portuguese repulsed the Dutch attack, and the Dutch never tried to conquer Macau again.

Additionally, free blacks of the North could easily be forced into slavery, whether they had been freed earlier or had never been slaves.

Because strong, healthy blacks in their prime working and reproductive years were seen and treated as highly valuable commodities, it was not unusual for free blacks — both freedmen ( former slaves ) and those who had never been slaves — to be kidnapped and sold into slavery.

Blacks and Indians never willingly accepted their status as slaves and seized any available opportunity to escape or rebel.

It was available to anyone who had never taken up arms against the U. S. government, including freed slaves, could file an application to claim a federal land grant.

Unlike other elite leaders who had relationships with slaves but never talked about them, Johnson was open and treated Chinn as his common law wife.

The furnace never went into production, but locals often speak to the quality of the construction since the structure was supposedly built by slaves.

Congress had never before addressed whether slaves were free if they set foot upon free soil.

Stemmons never bought or sold slaves and was known to have retained his family inherited slaves simply for their very own safety, and he was a slave owner who supported the abolition of slavery in the United States.

With his men exhausted and knowing Hédouville's column had also crossed the river at Oost-Capel Houchard wished to halt for the night, but Representative Hentz overruled him, announcing " Free men were never too tired to fight the slaves of tyrants ; therefore the army should continue it's movement ".

The Church never denied membership based on race ( although slaves had to have their master's permission to be baptized ), and several black men were ordained to the priesthood during Joseph Smith's lifetime.

The men were sentenced to death by burning, and Stephens ' revulsion at both the trial and the verdict led him to vow never to keep slaves himself, and to ally himself with the abolitionist movement.

Though he introduced many successful ideas to strengthen the legal success of the abolitionist cause, this mechanism which he believed to be " the only effective means to prevent British colonists from illicitly importing African slaves " was never taken up.

Later, these African Americans integrated 5, 000 liberated Africans called Congos ( descendents of former slaves from the Congo Basins who never made it to the Americas ) and 346 Barbadian immigrants into the hegemony.

* " There was never a more loyal woman in the South after we were forced by our political leaders to go to battle to defend our rights in ownership of African slaves, but they called it " State's Rights ," and all I owned was invested in slaves and my people were loyal and I stood by them to the end.

He made it a condition of their release that they would be " degraded from their rank, and received among the number of his slaves ", although he never expected this condition to be complied with.

The Spanish tongue, enforced in the courts and principal public offices, never superseded the French in the mouths of the people, and left but a few words naturalized in the corrupt French of the slaves.

King Ferdinand of Aragon gave Innocent 100 Moorish slaves who shared them out with favoured Cardinals.

Its members were chiefly prominent and wealthy evangelical Anglicans who shared common political views concerning the liberation of slaves, the abolition of the slave trade and the reform of the penal system.

In some households, guests and family members received gifts after the feast in which slaves had shared.

In Bethlehem, nobility and converted native Americans shared common quarters ; in Salem, slaves were full members of the Church and could be elected to offices of leadership.

The sociological upheavals during the Reconstruction era of the United States complicated the sociological category of gemeinschaft because former slaves, whose kinship ties were complicated under slavery, forged new communities that shared aspects of both gemeinschaft and gesellschaft.

They lived in a semi-feudal system ; the Seminoles giving the now " free " blacks protection, while the former slaves shared crops with the natives.

The SMBus has an extra optional shared interrupt signal called SMBALERT #, which can be used by slaves to tell the host to ask its slaves about events of interest.

Wealthy families shared the neighborhood with artisans, journeymen, laborers, servants, and slaves.

Among the colonial slave societies, the United States was nearly unique in developing the one-drop rule ; it derived both from the Southern slave culture ( shared by other societies ) and the aftermath of the American Civil War, emancipation of slaves, and Reconstruction.

He owned of land, a small sugar mill, and some slaves, who shared their duties with free workers.

When Flinders was accused of spying and imprisoned by the French in Mauritius on his return voyage to England Trim shared his captivity until his unexplained disappearance, which Flinders attributed to his being stolen and eaten by hungry slaves.

Its appeal from ballots to bullets at Fort Sumter ended by costing the Southerners their right to have slaves -- a right that was even less compatible with the sovereignty of man.

The very fact that they came so near to winning by the wrong method, war, led directly to their losing both the war and the wrong thing they fought for, since it forced Lincoln to free their slaves as a military measure.

for though their people had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others ''.

Rebs who owned slaves occasionally would include in their letters admonitions or greetings to members of the Negro community.

William was adamant on one point: under no circumstances would he allow the Negroes to remain on the plantation with his and Henry's slaves if they were told of their coming freedom.

All the slaves joined in requesting that they be allowed to delay their departure until the end of the planting season, so that they could get in `` their own little produce ''.

For example, in 1693 the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends declared that its members should emancipate their slaves and in 1776 it determined to exclude from membership all who did not comply.

Lincoln spent the next 100 days preparing the army and the nation for emancipation, while Democrats rallied their voters in the 1862 offyear elections by warning of the threat freed slaves posed to northern whites.

In ancient Greece sculptors and painters were held in low regard, somewhere between freemen and slaves, their work regarded as mere manual labour.

Caligula sold their furniture, jewellery, slaves and freedmen.

Some they would take as slaves, and once or twice a year they would have sex with their slaves.

Abu Bakr felt compassion for slaves, so he purchased eight slaves ( four men and four women ) and then freed them, paying 40, 000 dinar for their freedom.

In the 5th century public slaves forming a cordon with a red-stained rope herded citizens from the agora into the assembly meeting place ( Pnyx ), with a fine being imposed on those who got the red on their clothes.

It does seem clear that possession of slaves allowed even poorer Athenians — owning a few slaves was by no means equated with wealth — to devote more of their time to political life.

As the story would later be told by the Anglo-Saxon monk and historian Bede, Gregory was struck by the unusual appearance of the slaves and asked about their background.

Abdur Rahman could only succeed in subjugating Hazaras and conquering their land when he effectively utilized internal differences within the Hazara community, co-opting sold-out Hazara chiefs into his bureaucratic sales of the enslaved Hazara men, women and children in 1897, the Hazaras remained de facto slaves until King Amanullah Khan declared Afghanistan's independence in 1919.

* First and foremost, it governed player contracts that set up mechanisms to end the cross-league raids on rosters and reinforced the power of the hated reserve clause that kept players virtual slaves to their baseball masters.