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8.7.2 - Slavery
Slavery
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Slavery | a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work |
| slave rebellion | an armed uprising by slaves |
| slave codes | the laws in the Southern states that controlled enslaved people |
| Underground Railroad | A system of helping slaves escape to freedom in the North. |
| spiritual | an African American religious folk song |
| enslaved | being owned and worked by and for someone else |
| slave | an individual forced to do work without pay |
| fugitive slave | slaves who had escaped from their master to travel to a place where slavery was banned or illegal |
| resist | to fight against or try to stop |
| endure | to keep going even when it is hard |