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Harriet Tubman
vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| inference | educated guess based on information in the text |
| motivations | reasons for their actions |
| fugatives | people fleeing from danger |
| incomprehensible | impossible to understand |
| incentive | reason to do something |
| dispel | scatter; drive away |
| eloquence | ability to write or speak gracefully and convincingly |
| quarter | area in a plantation where enslaved people lived |
| ashcake | cornmeal bread baked in hot ashes |
| Fugitive Slave Law | escaped from slavery to free states but could be forced back to their owner |
| disheveled | untidy; rumpled |
| cajoling | coaxing |
| fastidious | fussy; hard to please |
| North Star | runaways fleeing to the north used the North Star to help keep them on course |
| forbidden spiritual | are religious songs |
| Quaker | religious group active in the movement to end slavery |
| mutinous | rebellious |
| rhematism | painful swelling and stiffness in the joints |
| actions | what people say or do |