Talk:Slavery in the United States

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Semi-protected edit request on 17 May 2021

In the section under 1850 it says slaves took the underground railway to Canada. Canada came into existence in 1867. If the area in question is modern day Ontario, that would be the British Colony of Upper Canada. Links on Canada, and upper Canada are in Wikipedia.

 Not done Even if not official, the term "Canada" was in daily use many years before 1867. "Canada" is used in many contemporary books (e.g. slave narratives). --Rsk6400 (talk) 05:53, 18 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
 Done Just saw that somebody else did it. --Rsk6400 (talk) 06:15, 18 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Rsk6400: I apologize for having jumped the gun and changing the reference from "Canada" to "Upper Canada" without waiting to see if anyone would comment to the request and before delving further into the subject. I subsequently realized that the area north of the U.S. border to which some slaves escaped ceased being known as "Upper Canada" in 1841, when Upper and Lower Canada were combined to form the Province of Canada, and that the article specifically referred to Underground Railroad journeys after 1850. I have made the appropriate corrections to the article. AuH2ORepublican (talk) 22:53, 18 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sokoto Caliphate

From Sokoto Caliphate:

The jihad had created "a new slaving frontier on the basis of rejuvenated Islam."[1] By 1900 the Sokoto state had "at least 1 million and perhaps as many as 2.5 million slaves", second only to the United States (which had 4 million in 1860) in size among all modern slave societies.[1] However, there was far less of a distinction between slaves and their masters in the Sokoto state.[2]

Should this page mention the slavery in Sokoto for comparison? --Error (talk) 15:47, 4 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ a b McKay, John P.; Hill, Bennett D. (2011). A History of World Societies, Volume 2: Since 1450, Volume 2. Macmillan. p. 755. ISBN 9780312666934.
  2. ^ Stilwell, Sean (2000). "Power, Honour and Shame: The Ideology of Royal Slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate". Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. 70 (3): 394–421. doi:10.3366/afr.2000.70.3.394.
WP follows mainstream scholarship. This means: If academic historians of U.S. slavery mention it, then we should follow them. Otherwise, we shouldn't. --Rsk6400 (talk) 17:13, 4 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Maryland; edit request

Maryland is listed among the states where slavery lasted until the 13th Amendment. This is an error. Slavery was abolished in the 1864 Constitution, ratified in November of that year. This WP article should confirm that. The wording of the Constitution is "That hereafter, in this State, there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except in punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; and all persons held to service or labor as slaves, are hereby declared free."

Removing Maryland should be enough. That the involuntary servitude in NJ was no longer called slavery is beyond the scope of this article. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 20:25, 18 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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