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51Plaçage — was a recognized extralegal system in which white French and Spanish and later Creole men entered into the equivalent of common law marriages with women of African, Indian and white (European) Creole descent. The term comes from the French placer …
52Henry Bidleman Bascom — (1796 mdash;1850) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1850. He also distinguished himself as a Circuit rider, Pastor and Christian Preacher; as Chaplain to the U.S. House of Representatives; and as an… …
53Bloomer Girl — Infobox Musical name= Bloomer Girl caption= music= Harold Arlen lyrics= E.Y. Harburg book= Sig Herzig and Fred Saidy basis= productions= 1944 Broadway awards= Bloomer Girl was a Broadway musical that premiered on October 4, 1944. Sig Herzig and… …
54Slavery at common law — in former colonies of the British Empire, developed slowly over centuries, characterised by inconsistent decisions and varying rationales for the treatment of slavery, the slave trade, and the rights of slaves and slave owners. Until 1807 there… …
55New York Manumission Society — The New York Manumission Society was an early American organization founded in 1785 to promote the abolition of the slavery of African descendants within the state of New York. The organization was made up entirely of white men, most of whom were …
56Takkanah — A takkanah is a major legislative enactment within halakha (Jewish law), the normative system of Judaism s laws.A takkanah is an enactment which (1) revises an ordinance that no longer satisfies the requirements of the times or circumstances, or… …
57History of slavery in New York — Dutch rule= Chattel slavery in the geographical area of the present day U.S. state of New York began in 1626, when a shipment of 11 Africans was unloaded into New Amsterdam harbor by a ship that belonged to the Dutch West India Company. Before… …
58man- — I. man 1 Also mon . Man. 1. Extended forms *manu , *manw . a. man; leman, Norman1, from Old English man(n) (plural menn), man; …
59manumission — /man yeuh mish euhn/, n. the act of manumitting. [1375 1425; late ME < L manumission (s. of manumissio). See MANUMIT, MISSION] * * * …
60Roman law — the system of jurisprudence elaborated by the ancient Romans, a strong and varied influence on the legal systems of many countries. [1650 60] * * * Law of the Roman Republic and Empire. Roman law has influenced the development of law in most of… …
