Antebellum Years
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| plantation system | large estate or farm on which crops are raised, whose workers live on site
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| cotton gin | a machine that separates the seeds, seed hulls, and other small objects from the fibers of the cotton
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| Eli Whitney | inventor of the cotton gin
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| subsistence farms | growing and keeping of crops in order to survive
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| antebellum | the period in the United States before the American Civil War
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| sectionalism | loyalty to one's region or area
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| Denmark Vessey | a former slave who bought his freedom and secretly planned a slave revolt in Charleston and nearby plantaions
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| slave codes | laws passed to restrict the movement of and punish slaves
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| abolitionist | person who favored the end of slavery
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| emancipate | to free
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| Nat Turner | led the most violent slave revolt in the U.S.
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| Sarah and Angelina Grimke | sisters from Charleston who participated in the abolitionist movement
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| The Liberator | an anti-slavery newspaper written be William Lloyd Garrison
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