| A | B |
|---|
| debtor | a person who owes money to someone else |
| Tidewater | The coastal plain in Virginia |
| navigable | wide and deep enough for oceangoing ships |
| naval stores | pine tree products such as pitch and tar |
| low country | The warm and mostly wet area along the coastal plain in South Carolina |
| Indigo | a plant used to make a deep blue dye for cloth |
| Piedmont | Hilly land west of the coastal plain, at the foot of the Appalacian Mountains |
| fall line | The place where rivers drop suddenly from highlands to lowlands, forming waterfalls |
| backcountry | Land on the western frontier of the southern colonies |
| Middle Passage | the ocean voyage endured by captured Africans on their way to slavery in the Americas |
| boarding school | a school where students both live and study |
| overseer | a white man who helped run a plantation for the plantation owner |
| driver | a slave chosen to lead a work crew of slaves |
