Slavery has appeared almost universally throughout history among peoples of every level of material culture; from Ancient Rome to the United States in the 19th century, however, in no other culture had slavery been exclusively associated with one race as was the case with black Africans in America. Slavery can be defined as ‘the involuntary servitude of one person to another or one group to another’ (Cresset Press, 1996, ‘The Complete Encyclopaedia’), and in effect divided …showed first 75 words of 2577 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2577 total…Slave trade in the Union, until they eventually realised the wrongfulness of their actions. Ultimately there is no single excuse, explanation, or justification of slavery that does justice to the suffering or the gravity of the issue just as there is no party who is completely free of guilt. However, historiography, it will be remembered that slavery, regardless of blame, had a grossly negative and detrimental impact on the relations between Americans during C18th