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racial caste systems
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Mexico’s Last Slave Chain: When Did Mexico Abolish Slavery?
The paradox deepened when Mexico’s independence from Spain in 1821 didn’t immediately translate to freedom for the enslaved. The new nation’s leaders...
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How America’s Darkest Chapter Began: When Did Slavery in the US Start?
By the mid-17th century, Virginia’s courts had begun treating Black servants as property for life, a shift codified in 1640 when John Punch, an enslaved...
