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Discrimination - an act or instance of discriminating.
Prejudice - an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
Racism - hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.
Plantation - large farm or estate on which cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugar cane, or the like is cultivated with resident laborers
Indentured servants - servants contracting to work on fixed period of time in exchange for clothes, food etc.
"Middle passage" - the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa were shipped to the New World a part of slave trade
Extended family - family that includes in one household near relatives in addition to a nuclear family
"Roots" - a 1977 American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family.
Triangular trade - transatlantic slave trade
Slave auction - places where people were sold as slaves
Cotton gin - machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds
Slave codes - laws each US state, which defined the status of slaves and the rights of masters
Underground Railroad - network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states
Abolition - the legal prohibition and ending of slavery
Jim Crow - laws that mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy
Segregation - the act of separation
Brown vs Board of Education - landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
SCLC - (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) an African-American civil rights organization
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