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Slavery in America
7th grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| slave | a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them. |
| planter | the owner of a plantation |
| plantation | a large piece of land where one crop is planted for widespread cultivation and sale |
| slave codes | laws that controlled slaves and denied them their basic rights |
| bondage | state of being a slave |
| emancipation | process of being set free |
| Middle Passage | the leg of the triangular trade that brought slaves to the Americas |
| cash crops | surplus crops sold for money |
| slave auction | an arena where slaves were bought and sold |
| fugitive slave | a slave that has escaped or ran from the master that owned them |
| harass | subject to aggressive pressure or intimidation |
| enslavement | the act of making a person legal property or a slave |
| slave trade | procuring, transporting and selling of people in bondage |
| Grimke sisters | two prominent abolitionist sisters that were raised by a wealthy plantation family in the south |
| Fredrick Douglass | fugitive slave that became a prominent abolitionist |
| William Lloyd Garrison | prominent New England abolitionist; wrote and published "The Liberator" |
| Abolitionist | a person who wanted to end slavery in the U.S. |
| segregation | separation of people that are different races |
| Mason-Dixon Line | boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland; official boundary between the north and south |
| racism | belief that one race is superior to another |
| growing seasons | the amount of time that planters could grow their crops |
| indentured servant | a person who contracted to work for someone for a certain amount of time in repayment of the passage to North America |
| climate | prevailing weather conditions in an area |
| house slave | a slave that worked in the plantation home as a maid/butler etc. |
| field slave | a slave that would work in the fields of the plantation, planting and harvesting crops. |
| justification | the act of showing something to be right or reasonable |
| slave manifest | a list of all slaves on board a ship that was carrying slaves to the Americas. |
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