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| Diaspora | the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland |
| Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 | law passed in 1850 that required all citizens to aid in the capture of runaway slaves |
| Renaissance | a movement or period of vigorous artistic and intellectual activity |
| Reconstruction | rebuilding of the South after the Civil War |
| Metamorphosis | change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means |
| Tantalus | plagued by unquenchable hunger and thirst in the midst of unreachable food and drink |
| Lynching | a mob illegally seizing and executing someone |
| Sisyphus | faced with the impossible task of rolling uphill a rock which continuously slips back to the starting-point before the task is finished |
| Migration | to move from one country, place, or locality to another |
| Suffrage | the right to vote |
| Narrative | a collection of events that tells a story, which may be true or not, placed in a particular order and recounted through either telling or writing |
| Identity | the distinguishing character or personality of an individual |
| Double-Consciousness | term coined by W.E.B. DuBois; used to describe an individual whose identity is divided into several facets |
| Emancipation | the act or process of freeing from bondage |
| Underground Railroad | network of abolitionists who secretly helped slaves escape to freedom |
| Stereotype | a standardized mental picture that is held in common by members of a group and that represents an oversimplified opinion, prejudiced attitude, or uncritical judgment |
| Prejudice | an irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race, or their supposed characteristics |
| Racism | belief that one race is superior to another |
