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In its convention in 1830, in spite of the clearest proof of the ruinous effects of slavery, Virginia resolved to hold on to the curse. Hon. JAMES MCDOWELL, a scion of the old stock of Virginia statesmen, pictured the Commonwealth in that body thus:
"Look at Virginia, in reference to her every day practical habit and appearance, in she not anything but prosperous? Do we not in this respect contemplate her justly when we regard her meagre, haggard and enfeebled, with decrepitude stealing upon her limbs, given over to leanness and impotency, and as wasting away under the improvidence and the inactivity which eternally accompany the fatal institution that she cherishes, and cherishes, too, as a mother who will hazard her own life rather than part even with the monstrous offspring that afflicts her."
In that same debate, the same CHARLES JAMES FAULKNER, who has been recently pardoned by the president for treason, used these spirited words:
"Shall society suffer that the slaveholder may continue to gather his crop of human flesh? What is his mere pecuniary claim compared with the great interests of this common weal? Must the country languish, droop, die, that the slaveholder may flourish? Shall all interests be subservient to one -- all rights be subordinate to those of the slaveholder? Has not the mechanic, have not the middle classes their rights -- rights incompatible with the interests of slavery?"
All such appeals were unavailing. The slaveholding classes continued their rule, and Virginia continued to degenerate. But matters became so intolerable in twenty years that another convention was held. The constitution of 1851 did not touch slavery, but in all other respects it was shaped by a thoroughly democratic spirit. In all of its other prominent features, it was the very reverse of the aristocratic constitution of 1830. It made a peremptory requisition upon the Legislature to establish an efficient system of public instruction. There were at that time sixty thousand adults who were unable to read and write; and this immense mass of ignorance was a prodigious incubus upon the energies of the State. But yet firmer ground for hope was given by the establishment, for the first time, of the sovereignty of the people, by the abolition of property qualifications, and all other electoral restrictions, and by the just apportionment of representation. The lethargy of the State had been greatly owing to the fact that her legislation had always been mainly under the control of a particular class -- a class who were directly interested in the perpetuation of old abuses, and whose whole policy was blind, motionless conservatism. It was believed that the popular clement would have full expression and free operation, and would impart new life and vigor to the whole administration of the State government; that practical measure would take the place of barren abstractions, that progress would supersede routine, that impulsive ambition for the future would succeed recumbent pride. But no such result followed. In HENRY A. WISE's great canvass for the Governorship four years afterward, he described Virginia, in one of his speeches, in this style:
"Commerce has long ago spread her sails and sailed away from you. You have not as yet dug more than coal enough to warm yourselves at your own hearths; you have sent no tilt hammer of Vulcan to strike blows worthy of gods hi your own iron foundries; you have not yet sun more than coarse cotton enough in the way of manufacture to clothe your own slaves, for he had no commerce, no mining, no manufactures. You have relied only on the single power of agriculture -- and such agriculture! Your inattention to your only source of wealth has scared the very bosom of mother earth. Instead of having to feed cattle on a thousand hills, you have had to chose the stump-tailed steer through the sedge patches to procure tough beefsteak."
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system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work
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A painting depicting African slave women waiting for sale, in Richmond, Virginia, USA, 1853.
Slavery is when a person is treated as the property of another person. This person is usually called a slave, with the owner being called a slavemaster. It often means that slaves are forced to work, or else they will be punished by the law (if slavery is legal in that place) or by their master.

Chains such as these were used to stop slaves from escaping
There is evidence that even before there was writing, there was slavery.[1] There have been different types of slavery, and they have been in almost all cultures and continents.[2] Some societies had laws about slavery, or they had an economy that was built on it. Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome had many slaves.
During the 20th century almost all countries made laws forbidding slavery. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights says that slavery is wrong. Slavery is now banned by international law.[3] Nevertheless, there are still different forms of slavery in some countries.[4]
The English word "slave" comes from the medieval word for the Slavic peoples of Central Europe and Eastern Europe, because these were the last ethnic group to be captured and enslaved in Central Europe.[5][6]According to Adam Smith and Auguste Comte, a slave was mainly defined as a captive or prisoner of war. Slave-holders used to buy slaves at slave auctions. In many cases slaves are not allowed rights.