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| Jane Hoskens | Indentured servant whose autobiography described life in colonial PA |
| autobiography | Story of a person's own life written by him/herself |
| slave trade | business of buying and selling people for profit |
| Olaudah Equiano | African who wrote of being kidnapped, enslaved, and transported to North America |
| export | send goods to other countries for sale or use |
| import | bring goods from another country for sale or use |
| agriculture | the business of farming |
| free enterprise | economic system in which people can own property and business and are free to decide what to make, how much to produce, and what price to charge. |
| Elizabeth Lucas Pinckney | S. Carolina planter who made indigo a major cash crop for the Southern Colonies |
| West Indies | Islands stretching from Florida in North America to Venezuela in South America |
| triangular trade | 3-sided trade route between Africa, the West Indies, and colonial New England which involved the slave trade as well as the trading of goods. |
| Middle Passage | The middle leg of the triangular trade route in colonial times in which captive Africans were shipped to the West Indies to be sold into slavery |
| plantation | large farm that often grows one crop |
| slave codes | rules made by colonial planters that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans |
| overseer | person hired to be the boss of a plantation |
| John Woolman | Quaker who spoke out against slavery in the colonies |
| Robert Carter III | Virginia planter and slave owner who freed 500 peope enslaved on his plantation |
| Benjamin Franklin | Writer, scientist, delegate to the Continental Congress, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and delegate to the Constitutional Convention |
| frontier | word used by colonists and pioneers to describe land on the edge of their settlements |
| almanac | a reference book containing facts and figures |
| backcountry | In colonial times, the name given to the eastern foothills of the Appalachian Mountains |
| Shenandoah Valley | a rich agricultural valley in Virginia |
